skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with the sentiment the reality is much more complicated and nuanced.

Both the US interstate system and the Internet came from military roots. Its all about motivation, war and fear of war seems to be great motivators for funding and building infrastructure.
I had an issue with SendGrid where they deleted my client's account. The account had been created by a person in South America (at one of their offices) but with a Canadian corporate credit card. I guess they assumed it was fraudulent and suspended the account without contacting us 2 days after we had subscribed and already put the account into production. They had zero phone support available, and the online support was inaccessible without an account (even to dispute an account suspension, very 'Catch-22.') I had to call their headquarters and leave voicemails on random mailboxes just to reach somebody with the ability to review the account suspension.
Michael DeHaan, creator of Ansible, wrote an intro here:

OpsMop: Building the Next Generation of Configuration Management Tooling ==> https://medium.com/@michaeldehaan/opsmop-building-the-next-g...
Dick Cheney is a traitor and has exploited the American people, and murdered countless Iraqi and Afghan lives for personal gain.
A centralized module index will be nice, i tend to end up searching github.com which leaves out all the other sites or locations that could have a module that solves my problem.
wasted???? if we did not spend on warfare we would not be able to defend infrastructure.

Hell we cant even defend against a caravan of invaders. We need more money in warfare
> you don't meaningfully capture people who only write reviews to flag serious problems

Yes - reading the comments here I'm realizing a major problem with any reviewer-centered system is that people decide whether to review on hugely varied conditions.

An always-five-stars reviewer might just be easily impressed (or a fraud), but they equally might subscribe to "if you don't have anything nice to say...". And quite a lot of people write exclusively bad reviews, but it's not obvious how to discern grumpy reviewers from people who only speak up about major issues.

A partial fix might be available by analyzing how far a given review is off user's average difference from product average, which could discern a five-star bot from a person who only reviews great products. But even that doesn't solve the XKCD problem where a product has median-case appeal but a high rate of critical failures. In true "what can't meta-analysis fix?" style, this could be improved by looking at a user's average distance outside 1SD of the mean review, or perhaps by special-casing products with multimodal reviews.

Of course, it's deeply unclear how to convert this to an output. Scaling reviews based on reviews sounds like a nightmare, reviews shouldn't be differential equations and no one wants to see 4+ layers of statistics to buy a new lamp. Perhaps all of the indirect work could be done off raw ratings behind the scenes to produce a general "adjusted average" for display?

(More realistically, the serious-problem case only seems solvable by reading text reviews, and just devaluing outright fraud and always-angry cranks would be a massive improvement over existing systems.)
> It’s highly likely that data has been for sale behind the scenes

I would say it's a near certainty. Not saying that Facebook the company was selling data under the table, but one corrupt or extorted sysadmin in the right place is all it would take.
Awesome, thanks for the recommendation! I just ordered a copy for me and another for my sister as a Christmas gift.
What would AsyncObservable look like in JS?
Your kitchen sounds like mine!
Banning abortion, or at least severely restricting it, is actually one of their stated goals. They also have some "gun enthusiasts". Just today, a scandal hit the papers of an AfD member of parliament participating in a South African right-wing militia's gun training camp (paying with public funds).

Their position on welfare is ambiguous, in actually quite a Trumpian manner: they do profess a wish to care for (white, male) pensioners, for example. But they also regularly rail against "welfare queens", or criminals receiving welfare after release. And of course any use of public funds for people with skin color different from their approved list of Pantone 343 "off-white" to 542 "brown(-ish), but only because I just got back from three weeks on the beach, I swear".
We could have that too if our government had unchecked eminent domain power. Is that what we want? Seems to be one or the other.
These are not "digitized" in the relevant sense, though. The OpenScore project (https://www.openscore.cc ) makes it quite clear what is meant by that. And it's hard work, though in principle some AI engine of a very different sort might be able to help with it.
I don't know why I should trust Super Micro investigating Super Micro.

I understand that Apple is bullish about there not being any evidence of their current hardware being compromised but it seems to me like it doesn't prove it never ever happened anywhere.
It boggles my mind why anyone would use MailChimp. The most important trait for a good organization is ethics. When they acquired Mandrill, they did the same to PAYING customers[1]. They even turned off comments on the blog post of the announcement. And ever since they did these shady things, they super-charged their SEO to hide any mention of this fiasco. If you do a quick Google search for "mailchimp mandrill" you would no longer see the slew of articles of rants of paying customers like you used to. Really, the worst ethics I've seen in any internet company.

I stopped using MailChimp ever since and even though their integration is much simpler, I do not use them for my clients. Every now and then I do have one or two clients wanting to integrate with them, but I do honestly warn them of what they're capable of and be the judge.

It's not like they're cheap. Their plans are pricey and yeah, they do have good deliverability, but the competition has caught up ever since. The only way they're able to keep existing accounts is by passive-aggressive scare "Watchout, we have the best deliverability and if you move elsewhere for price concerns, you have tons of these problems to deal with, including deliverability, so stick with us".

This is 2018. No one should be using MailChimp. There isn't any good reason to.

[1] http://www.dangrossman.info/2016/02/28/mandrills-betrayal/
I apologize for the sarcasm but is Jack Ma really a genius for noticing this?
I think a primary problem with the modules workflow is that you can't switch to it until all Go projects you work on switch to it. Plus, all of us have got our own GOPATH home-directory workarounds so there's no real point in switching anymore.
ray-tracing / path-tracing as a category tends to be very branch-heavy with non-local data. GPUs are able to be so insanely parallel because their workloads don't branch much (or rather, every "thread" takes the same branch) and their data is tightly packed.

Think of a GPU like a dozen really, really basic in-order, non-speculating CPUs, each one with a stupid huge wide SIMD unit. As long as the data is nicely packed, doing the same operations on each unit of data, boom - turbo mega ultra fast. That's rasterization. That's pixel shaders. That's modern GPU workloads.

ray-tracing, though? Rays bounce around. They branch. They don't all do the same thing on nicely packed data.

This would be where something like the Xeon Phi coprocessor would fit the bill in theory. Although it looks like maybe it didn't pan out all that well as Intel seems to have killed that product line?
> Do they get any benefit from vaping?

Yes, almost certainly. Nicotine is effectively a nootropic, having "significant positive effects on aspects of fine motor abilities, alerting and orienting attention, and episodic and working memory". Nicotine has a (afaik) unique mix of stimulating and anxiolytic effects and there's reasonable evidence that it has antipsychotic effects helpful in reducing symptoms of schizophrenia. There's even evidence that nicotine has general neuroprotective properties helpful against brain trauma or neurodegenerative disease. There are many studies highlighting potentially beneficial effects of nicotine, you can find a handful linked here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?linkname=pubmed_pubmed&f...

That isn't to say that vaping has no dangers or potential downsides, but I think, likely in large part due to how dangerous tobacco smoking is, there's been a dearth of communication to the public of the variety of potential positives of nicotine. For many non-smokers who use nicotine the significant benefits may well outweigh the downsides.
I mean, it'd be good if we got good public transports and more help for homeless people. Maybe healthcare and free education as well. What the hell.
No, but just like Trump wouldn't condemn Neo-Nazis, these are the people they "happen to" end up alongside with sometimes:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/chemnitz-chronologie-der-a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_ZdP79O84&t=2m

Hooligans salute Hitler, AfD supporters and "concerned citizens" go "tee-hee, how bold". That's the AfD, and that's what matters.

edit: oh, and the harmless image that's spread here on HN, combined with silent downvotes, that's just great. If you don't want a response, don't belittle a party you apparently know nothing about, in a country you don't even speak the language of.
Ecigs are this generations 70's cigarette moment, thanks to social media. It has been glamorized and thus cool:

https://vsco.co/search/images/juul
Thanks for the correction. I suppose propaganda is at play in the misconception. Also it wouldn’t make sense for Ukraine to not want a better security guarantee given the history between Russia and Ukraine.
Your Focus on 'Quality Content' Is Why No One Reads Your Blog
That's an absurd decision. The US has tens of millions of annual visitors, and given that the majority of the Earth isn't white, it's likely that a majority of the visitors aren't.

While the stories that hit the press are negative (and hence newsworthy), millions travel in and out without incident.

If you look at this statistically, you have a one in a million chance of having your phone searched at the border
> You can use Russian roulette techniques

Did you mean Monte Carlo?
NO, but it's just there, localized conflict.

Plus it started recently and war is (kinda) the default state in some places. It can be a lot worse
Can't you just symlink your preferred python?
A lot of the money spent on wars is not included in the military budget. George W Bush was famous for doing that: he'd put the Iraq war money in the "supplemental budget", so it wouldn't show up in the deficit or the Pentagon budget.
I think we largely already have. If something is legal in society, there is always going to be some rate of individuals interested in participating. At some point, if you want the government to nanny over you and make your choices for your, just possessing the substance illegal. Otherwise, warn people of its ills, then let them choose.
Vendoring will still be supported.
Several Gambling Dapps Hacked – Here Is What Happened
“Meeting Snowden – ARTE”
Bypassing CAPTCHAs with Headless Chrome
> Even still, the mounting evidence shows that these devices are not harmless.

> Chronic nicotine exposure may lead to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, although this risk may be offset by the well-known appetite suppressant effects of nicotine. Inhaled nicotine increases heart rate and blood pressure. Nicotine is highly addictive in its own right, and it may lead to changes in the brain that increase the risk of addiction to other drugs, especially in young people. Nicotine may also impair prefrontal brain development in adolescents, leading to attention deficit disorder and poor impulse control. These potential harms of nicotine are particularly worrisome in view of soaring rates of e-cigarette use in U.S. teenagers.

> Using nicotine in adolescence can harm the parts of the brain that control attention, learning, mood, and impulse control.

> Many people incorrectly believe that these devices produce a water vapor when in fact they create aerosols that contain harmful chemicals, and ultra-fine particles that are inhaled into the lungs and out into the environment, making them harmful to the user and others nearby.

I guess you're assuming people aren't going to read the actual links?

Further, this isn't a zero sum game; you can be worried about soda and e-cigs.

It bothers me more than it probably should, your attitude. You're letting this stuff ruin lives all because you want to get high.
Please hire using frameworks knowledge for your company. More power to you.
Yes, NATO expansion riled Russia and this is the result of imperial hubris on the part of the U.S.
In those niche cases I'd push for a contract, or otherwise ensure I have some recourse if the product/service turns out to be fraudulent. I admit I'm somewhat risk-averse with meaningful sums of money.
People who vape are under the impression that exhalation only releases water vapor into their immediate surroundings; I've heard this on multiple occasions from smokers. The question then of course becomes, how does it have a scent if it is just water vapor?
Reading between the lines, what this statement actually means is likely "we have a lot of this user data in flat logs, which makes it hard to delete a single individual's data out of the logs, so we need to move from flat user-agnostic logs to per-user structured data".
What do you mean Google bricked their Home Hub?
It could be much worse.
Pretty much every language has a GOPATH thing.

CLASSPATH, PYTHON_PATH, PERL5LIB, ...

I never really understand the hate here. It seems more like they didn't hate GOPATH specifically and more that they didn't like not having a package manager.
Speculative: re-find
Remember when they crashed a high speed train and buried all the evidence the next day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou_train_collision
You should travel more. Out of your country.
There is a big difference between spending money on the military and spending money on wars.
This article made me slightly sad that my kids might one day find my various gadgets among all the junk in the garage and not be able to figure them out, but equally not want to throw them out for sentimental reasons.

I need to either put printed instructions on everything, or else dispose of them before I die!
Most US locks are Schlage or kwikset (personal experience, but backed by [1]) - both require only a single turn and are direct locking - turn to the left locks, to the right unlocks, if it's already in the position you're trying to set it will only do a quarter turn, and the key must be in the upright position to remove. I would be very surprised to encounter a European style lock, but it may be that some regions prefer them (I'm in the northwest, having previously lived in the east coast metroplex)

[1] http://www.locksmithsecurityservices.com/2016/06/top-5-lock-...
Most of the Bay Area has that look. Houses built in the 1950s and 1960s.
I am not convinced that lack of unchecked eminent domain power is the only thing keeping the United States from building modern infrastructure.
I think it's more a practical concern than something that can be proven conclusively; the behavior characteristics (e.g., collision probability) are known for a given hash function, and if you're implementing HLL, you choose an appropriate one based on your use case (expected cardinality, etc.)

Redis uses a modified 64-bit MurmurHash2, for example.
Interesting. Perhaps I can investigate if USB audio is possible with a USB connected 3G module I'm using in a tablet, too. That would certainly simplify some things.

Thank you very much for a lead!
>He said the U.S. has wasted over $14 trillion in fighting wars over the past 30 years rather than investing in infrastructure at home.

The US spent $14 trillion upholding a world order of free trade and international maritime law which directly benefited China and was responsible for its own export based growth over the last 30 years. We're seeing that global order realign now, with things like Brexit and Trump, but I'm not sure we want a world without the US spending this kind of money.

Would it be a better if China controlled all navigation within the South China Sea? Why don't we just let Putin roll over the Baltics? That's the real reasoning behind US defense spending. Sure you can point to Iraq and Afghanistan line items, but the vast majority of recurring spending is on strategic naval and air forces to pursue long term objectives like this.
I thought that was only true of code.
Doesn't Python 3 compile the .pyc files under the __pycache__ directory, and version them based on Python's version?
I use an a blocker and create rules for them. I know it's futile but I get some pleasure by blocking the dialog rather than responding to it in the manner they're demanding. I only really visit a few sites very often so it's not a problem for me to do this.
Another weird thing to me, as a foreigner in the US, is the fascination people have for the "troops".
Juul is cited many times in that document. I am generally intrigued by Juul. Their intention to "end combustible smoking" and help "adult smokers" smoke with less pain/more easily seems good for the target user (create a system with fewer toxins-to-nicotine ratio). The side-effect of engineering a better system is that it's easier for all users to smoke, i.e. intended for adults, but tech-savy kids will devour this concept).
Colloquially, schematics, board layout files, and the ability for the user to replace any firmware that the developer can is the bar for open hardware.

Here's their firmware:
https://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/turris/openwrt
> Meanwhile we took the Maglev train from the Pudong Airport to the Shanghai City Center

This has been operational since 2002/2004 so about 15 years ago.
Not sure what to make of this. How does it handle throttling or captchas?
It's the main reason for corporate structure in the first place. To shield individuals from personal liability. CEO tell VP who tells Senior Manager who tells Department Manager who tells worker bee to do something. Everyone has an out. They either were "misunderstood" or they were "following instructions"
Depends on who you're buying from. In general, home/consumer usage is cheaper, less reliable, and comes with those restrictions compared to a business use.
https://www.air802.com/fcc-rules-and-regulations.html
That's an excellent description. It's quite a feat how I think every single chancellor ended up hating them with a passion, especially considering there weren't any Chancellors after the first with much of any real ideological differences to the SPIEGEL.

As but two examples: the last two chancellors and SPIEGEL are essentially identical on the ideological scale: Merkel is slightly left of her center-right party. Schröder was slightly right of his centre-left party. The SPIEGEL is squarely in the mainstream, possibly a bit to the left on social issues than on economics.
The US has profited immensely from "building stuff to build stuff" back from the new deal programs in the 30's, wartime factory infrastructure investments in the 40's, as well as massive infrastructure buildout of the highway systems, water and sewers, etc. in the 50-60's. I think coasting on a lot of that build out is what allowed lower than typical infrastructure expenditures for many decades, but also gave us (and our political/business leadership that grew up in those years), a warped low view of how much infrastructure investment is reasonable.
dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18710486
Interviews from the Erlang and open source community
Google couldn't buy a page rank library unfortunately. Nor can they evolve search or develop tensorflow with people that just work off of libraries.
iX is the corporate sponsor of FreeNAS, so it makes sense that they would have a stake in this, and are taking the lead on it. Hopefully this transition goes smoothly. I've been holding off on a new NAS for some of the migrations for FreeNAS to take effect.

On the flip side, I'm glad I saw this when I did. I really don't want to have to know all about ZFS tooling, and hoping that they get the UI/UX in place for a clean NAS experience, and may just buy a prebuilt from iX later next year.
others have already mentioned Gonum:

- https://gonum.org

Gonum is almost on par with _e.g._ NumPy/SciPy (most notably lacking: ODEs).
So still ways to Go but it's getting there.

Go-HEP is my attempt to bring a few High Energy Physics oriented packages to particle physicists:

- https://go-hep.org

I've also written a few words on why I think Go is great for science:

- https://sbinet.github.io/posts/2018-07-31-go-hep-manifesto/

TL;DR: Go is great b/c it brings great s/w engineering practices and a s/w engineering-friendly environment to scientists.

Admittedly, generics will change how packages are written.
So some code churn will take place when/if they land, but the Go community learned the lessons from Python2/3 and Perl5/6. Expect a better migration path.

Lastly, I guess the 2 remaining weak points of Go are:

- runtime performances sub-par wrt C++ or Rust

- GUIs (which may or may not fall into "interactive visualization")

That said, the Go community worked on a Go kernel for Jupyter:

- https://github.com/gopherdata/gophernotes

- http://gopherdata.io/

hth,
-s
Setters have no equivalent in (pure) FP.
> Everything with e-cigarettes was fairly hunky-dory and not an 'epidemic' until 2014, the year teen smoking rates plummeted and e-cigarettes took off.

Yes. E-cigarette usage wasn't an epidemic until usage “took off”.

That's just the definition of “epidemic”; everything else you try to associate is irrelevant.
It certainly is an amazing approach.

One of my former co-workers was a physicist who knew LabView and he used it for everything from parsing log files to sending automated emails.
100% agree. I run a network of very focused blogs with small but targeted audiences. Each blog may only have 3,000 views per month, but it's serving a city with 10,000 people, so we've captured 1/3 of the market for the entire city. And everyone who views the site is local. But I still hear companies balking at our advertising rates complaining that the CPM (cost per thousand views) is way too high.

At the average $2.80 CPM, we'd make $9 per month. In a city of 10,000 people, what would get more attention: a cheap Google ad, or your name sitting at the top of the only digital media outlet in the city? That's worth a $10 CPM, I think.

It's about the percentage of the market captured, not raw view numbers.
Figure out how much the average user brings in in revenue per month, add the option to disable all tracking for that amount per month. I don’t see what’s so hard. I’d imagine most people don’t care that much and the ones that do have an option now.