skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Believe me it’s not just the internet. Those people are just as vocal about it among friends and family.

If you think the average British person is nice, you’ve probably just been lucky so far.
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I just had to close two windows and it just closed off. Firefox on Windows 10.
EDIT: Married since 2012 here:

At first glance, Tinder sounded like some end game dating opportunity.

While its first users were embarrassed to say they were doing online dating, I reassured them- Its fine! Find your SO!

Years later, it seems to have turned into a world of unmet expectations.

When its incredibly easy to find a date, people don't seem to try as hard to make things work. They find flaws and compare. The worst offenders never seem to be happy.

Admittedly, it might have also further shrunk the pool of "the good ones", where the only people left have bad jobs, drug problems, and incredibly high expectations.

On another note, I'm wondering how it has changed Sex. It seems sex has never been easier to have due to these dating apps. I wonder if people will be able to settle down.
Thanks a lot for the MIT OCW lectures hint! I want to do the same in 2019. What works for me in general is diving into a side project and learning by hacking, but I fear ML won't be susceptible to this approach.
You publish it so that the people that believe it - and are currently very angry - can enjoy the confirmation of their bias and roll around in it to great pleasure.

A quick example of this in action. A friend of mine is irrationally partisan when it comes to being a Democrat. The party can do no wrong; all wrongs are ignored, without exception. Hillary Clinton was her unicorn politician that was to change everything bad about the world, she cried for weeks about the election loss. Then she moved on to attacking any of her friends she suspected of supporting Trump. When that wasn't enough to sate the anger and hurt, she moved on to demanding proof of loyalty - proof that you didn't support Trump and did support Hillary (Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein supporters were also evil).

She loves any documentary or media she can get her hands on about lesser educated / poor white people in America (she is a white person, and grew up in poor Appalachia). She loves to make fun of them; these are people she hates. It confirms her existing bias and makes everything feel better by reinforcing what she believes about politics generally and the 2016 election specifically. It gives her a villain group to blame any negative situation on (identity politics practically requires groups to designate as evil or bad, to properly establish the framework).
My team started being more serious about our switching from .NET to a mix of Django, Flask and Vue.js this year, so I've been focusing on those. I personally played around with GraphQL (Apollo, Yoga and Graphene) for a while, but ultimately I didn't find a good use case for it in our setups and kind of left it at that.

Our 2019 will be spent on building our AWS and Azure skills along with container setups, as we look to move further away from our .NET and IIS heavy setup. With an increased focus on getting better with Python and Vue, possibly moving our JavaScript to Typescript.

I don't have anything negative to say about .NET, in case anyone was wondering. I think .NET core and Blazor.NET are especially interesting. We've just had so much more fun with Python and that's frankly really motivational. We're also using more and more Python when we do data-driven development, incorporate GIS stuff or do various forms of scripting, so it sort of makes sense to consolidate.
Programming, in my view, is a craft more than anything else. Like blacksmithing or painting. You may learn some specific tricks by watching others but you'll only get good yourself by doing it.

Listen, if you're looking at your code and saying "this is crap", that's good- it means you can now tell crap from quality. So refactor it again and make it better. Fire up the forge and hit the hammer a few more times until it feels right.
For totally different reasons, Moscow, the capital of Russia, has recently acquired a magnificently weird shape after annexing a huge tract of land shooting out roughly in the southern direction (nos. 11 and 12 on this map [1]). In Russia, city and region boundaries are important, but Moscow city limits are insanely important in terms of pensions, taxes, schools, and healthcare (it's much better to be inside than outside). The main motivation for this land grab, however, was to give housing developers more space to build new houses, and newly minted burgesses are torn between being happy because of imminent social spending hikes and being terrified of the total redevelopment of what they used to call their home area.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_divisions_of_Mo...
+1 for Why We Sleep

and

The Shallows - What the internet is doing to our brains
A guy on the internet doesn't get constructivism. More news at 11!

Constructivism is, in any of its manifestations, never a normative theory. Rather, it tries to describe how reality or certain concepts come about. Instead of saying that we should discard all notions of truth and try to construct reality/some concept in a certain way, it is a simple acknowledgement that our perception is socially mediated.It, of course, doesn't deny that there are two mushroom heads on the ground but rather it highlights that we view (i.e. construct) them as two mushrooms even though they are part of the same organism
I got to 34 then got bored lol. My attention span is wrecked.
It is just based on experience and common sense (although I’m sure you can come up with some awkward justification for why Haskell has only delivered a fraction of the successful products Go has done despite having been around so much longer and despite being The One True Programming Language). I’m not bothered about whether you believe me or not to be honest. Frankly, I’ve lost interest in the conversation. You seem very defensive and threatened by the success of a programming language, and that’s just the saddest and most disinteresting thing I can think of.
Fact-checking isn't just about dates and numbers, but about all facts presented in an article.

As a German I'm also surprised about that reputation. The Spiegel is somewhere between a serious newspaper (like FAZ, Süddeutsche or Zeit) and a tabloid (like Bild). Hunting for great headlines and stories, but not necessarily concerned with objective news reporting.
It doesn't have to be in-place, or even compressed; it just has to be automatic and OS-integrated. With something like squashfs (with or without compression) the kernel handles all the paging, mapping, and decompression (if any). Of course there are the classical benefits like resource usage being more efficient, but more importantly, less userspace code that needs to worry/care about filesystems and file layout etc.
Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kubernetes.
Taking countries offline- 'it's a matter of time because it's really easy'
> It's not in the public interest for us to know exactly who they are unless they're actually found guilty of a crime.

The press always say that naming people who've been arrested is an important measure against authoritarian regimes. It allows the public to know whether police powers of arrest are being misused or not.

They appear to have lost this argument, because this is in tension with people's right to privacy and rights to a fair trial by the courts not by the media.

There's some interesting info here about different approaches: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/100634...

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/21/press-intrusio...
It is absurd to describe rhe magazines political stance as „left leaning“. If anything, It is neoliberal. It had destroyed the campaigns of left leaning politicians at least as as those of conservatives.
2018 World Happiness Report [pdf]
It sells.
POSIX doesn't speak to the problem at all (except for chroot). It's just not part of the standard.

With linux, it's because the tools are exposed piecewise. Creating a process namespace isn't the same thing as creating a virtual network device. You can use cgroups to stop a container all at once, sure, but you can also use them for other useful purposes and the code is the same. Some of these APIs are simple, some less so. But they're tools.

I know, I know, now you're asking "well, why didn't someone just put all the tools together in one box that would do it with one sane UI?!"

They did. It's called Docker.
Golang, and I haven't enjoyed programming this much in a long time!
Elixir. The ecosystem has been steadily growing (and, more importantly, becoming more robust and mature) throughout 2018 with continuously improved tooling, libraries and frameworks. I'm excited for many of the upcoming things [1] in the Elixir world, and how those things can improve the way I build (web) software in 2019.

[1] For one example, https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera...
How It Came to Be That a Shark Dined on a Pterosaur
My city is one of the best in our area.

Best schools, safe, and has a high property tax.

10 miles south of us is Detroit. Where the Detroit voters re-elected Kawammi kilpatrick despite having constant public corruption.

Do I want those voters to impact my schools? Do those voters want to spend 9,000$/yr on property taxes?

Its far too simplistic to think that there is only redundancies at play.
Exactly. Collectively we solved the same problem again by introducing many more layers of abstraction and complexity. The levels of abstraction between what appears to be happening and what is really happening grows. When your app is down in prod, simple and easy to understand has benefits.
> That's where Google and FB have an advantage. They track everyone's location and interests

I was thinking about this two summers ago when there was that migration “crisis” in Europe, i.e. that Facebook knew better than anyone else on the planet how many immigrants there were (give or take) and especially from where exactly they were coming (that was a very contentious point back then) based on their location data and on the location data of their friends and families left at home. Come to think of it, I bet they could also “guess” the general level of education for many of those immigrants, that was also a very, very hot topic back then.
> Who are all these masochists using Tkinter?

embarassed hand raise

It's not that bad, just pretty bad.
I’m complaining about it because when I first heard about it, I tried to look up information to understand the algorithm and.. it turns out that “wavefunction collapse” is not useful, at all, as search terms or a starting point to learn anything about this algorithm. The name is completely useless to understanding it or finding out any more about it.

You could say the same about bubble sort or whatever, sure, and a case might have been made about the name when it was first introduced, but now they’re established names where “bubble sort” are good search terms that will help you find lots of information about the algorithm, but “Wavefunction collapse” isn’t a widely used algorithm and the name has a lot of existing publications that are not related (because they’re to do with actual quantum physics, not this algorithm). Even searching “wavefunctoin collapse algorithm”, when I last did it, only found quantum physics result (that seems to have changed though, as I just did a google search and the entire first page is about this algorithm, but I see most of the results are quite recent: within the last few months)
Anecdotal evidence from smaller markets (city of just a million or so) is that online dating doesn't work, and you certainly can't be sure of not running into people again.

Your comment evokes something like a tuple space, where people are essentially querying a database by uploading their dating profile. Tinder's "architecture", whereby only mutual matches are informed, is a bit like that in principle. In practice it means there is no way to message someone who hasn't matched with you, whether because they are not actively looking through matches or some other reason: there is no way for contact to be initiated unilaterally. This is a big change in the dynamics of the dating situation. I'd almost prefer a professional matchmaking service to the kind of "shadow labour" that's involved in swiping through Tinder profiles—particularly because of this problem of matches being, as it were, a passive/uncoordinated rather than active/coordinated phenomenon.

Unfortunately, Tinder's interface encourages very superficial judgements based on appearance, and the way you are required to "flirt" by text with people you haven't met is absolutely a bad thing.
I had no idea most of these existed. I thought badoo was a search engine?
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Freezing python scripts+runtime to generate static executables has long been possible. Of course, all such methods are specific to python and have python-specific caveats. One could say static-containerisation is just a general form of the practice of freezing runtimes with scripts.
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So that means Verizon is responsible when someone is found sharing copyrighted materials using your connection?
He includes a link to a simple implementation on his Github.

https://github.com/robert/wavefunction-collapse
It's funny, because the Spiegel is a weekly magazine and the NYT a daily newspaper, which brings a lot of difference in the style of the articles. Th best German comparison to the NYT is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) oder Süddeutsche (SZ).
I don't have access to my account anymore, but once I scrolled through my tickets, that I had created over the years. There were like 50 of them. Hardly any of those I felt good about after they were closed.

I've had maybe 2-3 with 1Password, and all but one was resolved quickly and satisfactorily. The one that wasn't: them telling my Basic Authentication dialogs would not be supported any longer. (The same response from LP, just before I quit them.) I can't really hate on either for this, since BA seems to be quite insecurely done and changes all the freaking time in Chrome (it broke regularly when LP supported it, due to Chrome changes).
Universities should ban PowerPoint
>Microdonation platforms like flattr fail to gain any traction

What about Wikipedia?

I run my website in this fashion.
Here’s a great twitter thread from a German-based American fact checker. https://twitter.com/spoke32/status/1076219412485677056

>> As far as I can tell from their mea culpa, this vetting process is limited to what can be Googled from Hamburg.
With the recent (with upcoming improvements) userspace mount support in Linux, even suid may be unnecessary.
Is your experience with Epic from over a decade ago? Transferring patient data, especially between two Epic systems, is much easier than that. As far as the UI goes, over the last four years Epic has had a big push to hire experts and make processes to help develop and test good user experience, as well as trying to make it look better. But that takes time in a big, old, complicated system, and you still have hospitals who haven't upgraded from 3+ year old versions. The latest version already looks immensely better in lots of areas, but you also can only do so much to make an easy to use program that also gets dense medical data in front of the right pairs of eyes so that patients don't die.
Maybe its worth banning websites with paywalls?

This is like a front page advertisement.
Do I understand the argument you are making correctly?

1. GP wants to say “the input to createBook is the Book type minus bookId”

2. GraphQL does not allow one to specify the type “Book minus bookId”

3. Therefore you don’t allow it.

And maybe there is a point 2.b (which I can’t tell if you are making): we can’t have the type “book minus bookId” in our representation because we save in some “pure GraphQL” format and so can’t infer that type when we reload from a saved representation?
I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but mobs of liberal activists assaulted Trump supporters in San Jose after a rally.

Trump is openly supportive of LGBTQIA+++ people, was the first Republican presidential nominee to be, and was supportive of them long before Hillary and Obama were.

Healthcare does not automatically equate to socialized healthcare, and it is ignorant and arrogant to make a blanket characterization that voting for a Republican is a vote against "healthcare", whatever that's supposed to mean.
>Apparently there's just something about blowing smoke and age restriction that is cool to teens.

Yes this explains why they try it or start using it but you can't deny that nicotine will keep them coming back and that is something we shouldn't want. We're just getting a bit of success in a multi-decade battle against cigarettes.
I hear ya. I think you can do that in Rstudio, but I've only tried with .R files.
Could you point in the direction of some of the software radio resources? My last two years at work has had me in the embedded Bluetooth space, where we just use a proprietary soft radio blob that’s still a total black box to me.
Correct. In some states cities are like counties and have more legislative power from the state.

In the past cities had much more political power than towns, and were able to annex and do other things. My city looks sort of like a pork chop, as they annexed railyards at the city edge in the late 19th century for tax revenue.
Unfortunately, even though there are already several phones on the market whose hardware supports dual band GPS, the software in most cases doesn't.

see this article for details
https://medium.com/@sjbarbeau/dual-frequency-gnss-on-android...
I took Andrew Ng's Deep Learning class on Coursera. I recommend it to pick up the principles, and it exposes you to Keras and Tensorflow.
Configuring things is arcane now? When did users become so helpless?
Oh dear, one of those Tweets that should have been some sort of proper blog post.

The damn thing doesn't even load properly with cookies disabled.

I apologize for the toxicity but the content got lost to me.
Im curious to what tasks you felt you could not solve in bash incl. the nix toolchain?
Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/
All the articles I've read say people are having less sex. I don't know if they are true, but it definitely seems to fly in the face of the readily available dating apps.

I can tell you, as a lurker in some of the dating subreddits, it seems lots of guys complain they never get matches, or rarely do. And, a lot of the women complain about a constant stream of terrible matches with men.

Here's a thought: maybe focusing purely on looks (like Tinder does) isn't a good recipe for sexual compatibility.
That was a horrible choice if only because \ is already well-established for escape sequences (including in PHP itself).
I am working on a project that involves running untrusted JS, so I am learning about Linux containers (via lxc/lxd) and decided that Go would be a more appropriate language to build this on so I'm learning that too along the way.

I must say it's a lot to take in but these are really interesting technologies that should serve me well over the next few years, especially coming from node/JS.
Ask HN: Career advice for the next years?
First a little background:
I`m in my mid 20s, worked my way up from a help-desk position. Done 4years of sysadmin work and i am currently employed in of the largest Scandinavian based firms.

My day to day jobs consists of daily operation of various software solutions (mostly java applications), projects (kubernetes is the new hot thing) and various other sysadmin related tasks.

I have been approached by several people that want me to jump ship and join another department and or firm. But I`m not sure what i want going forward in my IT career.
I have two offers coming to me in early 2019, one is joining a penetration testing team, enrolling in a 6-12 months insane learning program. The other is joining another firm where i will become an Azure architect.

The problem or rather what i feel insecure about is that i don`t know enough, especially for the penetration testing gig. I don`t know programming in general, yes i have tweaked some php/bash/python/go code but never made anything from the ground up.
So I`m debating if i should move away from my "comfortable" position where I`m usually praised and involved in a lot of projects and I`m making a big positive impact, for both customers, colleagues and the firm. To a new position where this will be limited (atleast for a couple of years) in both skill, earning potential and possible impact I`m able to do.

I`m basically looking for advice, if someone has been a similar dilemma and would like to share their experience, then that would be really appreciative.
Dairy farming is dying. After 40 years, I’m done
Regarding #2: Does the book go into any specifics on how exactly you're going to be sought after or at least how to look for the people who needs generalists?

I consider myself a generalist but I never ever see much interest for hiring someone like me. There's always ask for a person who's a focused pro in some niche area AND then possesses a cloud of tangential skills, though.
Try taking a sleep study.
No one expect it. But that doesn't mean the opposite; that there is nothing about Jesus doesn't become somehow a proof of his existence.

The first step must be to acknowledge that there is nothing about Jesus up until around the years 80~120. That simple FACT is uncontested by everybody, and it is also the only fact uncontested by everybody. That is nothing controversial, yet somehow here everyone that brings it up gets downvoted.

Most of the "evidence" is from the second century onwards and written only by christians. You would need to go a couple of centuries forward to find real third-party references about him. Most historians consider this as proof of existence of a person 100 years earlier, that is also true. But I don't know why christians clench so tightly around historians on this issue, when it is also the opinion of most historians that the accounts about Jesus are not historical, and that most of the events told about him historically never happened.

So, if we are gonna go with historians on this, then:

1) Jesus was a real person.

2) Nothing in the new testament about Jesus can be said to have happened except that he was born, that he was poor, and that he was crucified.
The big story is actually that the DNC was able to flip only a small amount of house seats, instead of the landslide they were expected to get, and also that the DNC lost Senate seats.
- Go Lang

- Kafka

- NodeJs

- React. It was a bit of steep learning curve for me as I’m mainly a backender but once I got the essential concepts it was really awesome)

- mongo (quite like it with NodeJs but not with go Lang. For anyone going to start with mongo I recommend using Robo GUI client)
>progression of society

how is reducing ourselves to animals running around naked with no impulse control "progress"? Is pleasure your only goal in life? The hard work and years of effort to make scientific breakthroughs sure as hell isn't fun, but the results are beneficial

>If we want to transition from a society of repression and suffering to one of liberation and bliss

"repression" is what makes society possible. If every one is free to do what they want and seek their own pleasure with no societal control, your only rule is might makes right.

Pretty much every religious rule you're criticizing was for the benefit of the weak. The strongest can just crack your skull and do as they please without any rules holding them back
What happened to the UK law or practice of not naming suspects? That's the way it was a decade ago (or more?), right?