skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it almost comical these days because if this were an app that was a docker container / self hostable, people wouldn't bat an eye or would applaud it for supporting multiple platforms. However, if you wrap it in Electron for ease-of-use + some desktop integration, you get torn a new one.

Sure there's cross-platform UI applications out there like VLC, but like you said web technologies are maintaining attention right now and DO provide a lot of benefits.

I, like you, would not be embarrassed in the slightest to release something in Electron. I know about its bloat. I'm also aware that it means I can create a good looking application without spending a ton of time trying to figure out how to implement it.
Yeah that's probably a good bare minimum amount of git knowledge. But I feel like that's making git which can be a super helpful and powerful tool nothing more than a means to an end.

Learning the functionality of git can really help you out. For example, I almost always use the `-p` flag (particularly `git add -p` which gives me a chance to manually see every change I've made, often I'll find some junk that I may have left somewhere else. Also being familiar with how to rebase series of commits onto and off of other branches can be a huge time saver.
It could also be that cleaning hard flooring and cleaning carpets have different levels of overhead. Carpet cleaners are nowhere near the mechanical simplicity of a spinning floor brush. The floor brush probably lasts 20+ years, needing only scrubbing pad replacements.
What will happen with the people who can't manage their money and blow their UBI other things?
And also, the problem with biometrics is that they're not passwords, they're usernames.

It's by no mean secret, although somewhat unique to the individual.
I've yet to run into a company that didn't actively engage with the BBB. AirBnB quite certainly seems to respond extremely actively to them. I've been fortunate enough to only have a couple of complaints with businesses I was unable to resolve directly, and in both cases I was able to work out a fair settlement through the BBB alone. If somebody would prefer to go the social review route, then that's great - it's obviously a very good thing that we have so many dispute resolution options available for consumers now a days.
Ego difference. No lifestyle difference. And no life and death difference.
Is that necessarily a bad thing? If Gates or Jobs acted unwantonly despotic, then the checks and balances are in place for their removal. Sometimes, reputations speak for themselves and must be respected as a function of following a leader.
can't wait to hear the name
Assuming what you say is true, HN continues its trend of having great content for software and related topic, and being next to useless for meaningful physics or medical news. I didn't notice this till my buddy who is a physicist pointed out that almost all of the physics articles on here are either wrong, or wildly misleading. It would be nice if we could be better about vetting this stuff as a community.
I don't know, I guess this just doesn't seem unreadable to me:

https://i.imgur.com/XROwES3.png

It's a list making fun of Amazon's stupid duplicate product recommendations and you don't need to scroll horizontally to get that out of it.

Screenshot from an iPhone SE which is a damn small viewport by 2019 standards.
>Well it passed it's feature tests that I wrote for it

You (the programmer) write unit tests too, and even well code with well written unit tests will have bugs in it, if simply due to logic errors, or if due to mocks.

>Please tell me all of the products that your code is contained in. I don't want to die in a self-driving car because has superficial test coverage.

I just don't think this was the best way to go about your argument. Why attack the poster? Why not link your own papers about the benefits of unit tests?
Well, at least it has history in its favor. There has been no counter-example...

If anything, empirically it's true. It's the opposite idea that's fairy tale baseless...
Targeted online advertising is at its most effective if you are a small player targeting a very niche market. When you're a well-known brand, you won't see the same ROI. Also, you'll be able to get away with a lot more than you would with a TV or print ad, that would require human verification.

Take something like Alex Jones' male virility supplements. There are numerous 'brands' selling this type of snake oil to vulnerable, ideologically zealous people. Brands like these are fly by night, they wouldn't invest in an ad on say, The Economist.

But you would definitely want that ad showing on someone's feed when they've already indicated they follow pages and personalities that make it obvious you're the target customer, i.e. an easy mark.
This sounds like it should be a "name and shame" situation, as well as a small claims court case for the cost of return transportation and any additional expenses from the time stuck in the airport.
While I totally get your reference and tounge-in-cheek nature, you'd be responsible for damages. Besides super bright UV LED device would be much cheaper and easier to carry with you.
Absolutely! This would have been a problem when a IP range was blocked however. You would have to test 32 subnets for any given IPv4 (or 128 for IPv6!). We knew it was not ideal, but it had the least downsides at the time.
Moving is expensive as well. When you hear about families being unable to buy diapers in bulk because they can't save the $50 needed for that and instead buy smaller quantities at twice the cost per diaper you realize that some people simply can't afford to move somewhere cheaper as crazy as that sounds.
Pretty sure, if nothing else, that you could sue them in small claims court.

Unfortunately, in my experience (IANAL), small claims courts only have the power to enforce ruling via liens or other local means. Which means that if you bring suit in your local small claims court, the only way to collect is if the company in question has real estate or other holdings in your local area. Alternatively you could bring a suit in the company's home district, but that means you actually have to show up in court there. Which means travel expenses. Usually it isn't worth it.
I wish people would name the company, especially when it does something this awful. Why be coy? It’s not like there is a chance that you’d get the job anyway. You could save lots of other candidates time and grief. Name the company and the first and last name of the recruiter who stonewalled you when you told them you were stranded at an airport due to their unacceptable behavior.
>Unless the people are being forced to work/buy/sell with amazon, they are by definition not being exploited.

There are tons of ways to force people that don't involve putting a gun on their head...
The shear absurdity of trying to fund anything beyond pet projects using gambling taxes should be clear to anyone.

This is pretty much a privatized tax collection for deliberately preying on the weak.

I mean do the reverse math, if gambling revenue had met expectation, how much money would the poor have had to burn on gambling?
I meant to ask “how do they page people if PD is down?”, which kenrose included in this reply.
I just got back from the Rockies. I noticed my usual anxiety at sea level was completely gone.
Is that true? For example, PayPal's CEO is Dan Schulman, Schulman is the head of the board of Symantec, and PayPal has to use all Symantec products in every category where they sell a product.

Is that improper?
Anyone have a link to the clinical trial?
Fiserv to buy First Data for $22B to boost payments business
Original paper posted at -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18836456
Drew, thank you.
These were almost definitely not even Elsevier employees. They were editors of an Elsevier journal, but likely were paid only a token amount for their work, and probably not even that.

The world of academic publishing is very strange, almost inconceivably so. The publishers push off most of the substantive work to unpaid academics (reviewers, editors, and of course the actual paper authors) but then charge thousands of dollars for the results. It is a wonder their profit margin is not 100%.
The same thing that happens now when people who can't manage their money blow their salary on other things, except that it's marginally clearer what the problem is.
How the new VR screen could end the smartphone
It really is a blight. Everywhere you go (other than Chicago) there are sleazy-looking banners offering video gambling. Even unexpected places. Literally every strip mall I'm aware of has at least one, regardless of the income tier the strip mall targets. Even the mom & pop diner just off the highway now has its windows plastered with adverts for video slots and video poker.

Searching for video gambling will only turn up the dedicated establishments (it doesn't turn up that diner, nor many dozens of bars) but you can still see how ridiculous it is from searching any downstate community.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/video+gambling/@40.116774...

Here, the same chain has locations barely a thousand feet from one another, and they're not even the only dedicated dens in that immediate area.

Bar - doesnt show up when searching 'video gambling':
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.117862,-88.2040812,3a,75y,97...

Family Diner - every window is now covered with gambling advertisements, but street view is from 2015, before they converted. Still useful for understanding how persvasive the spread is and the types of businesses that are converting to stay competetive.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1329083,-88.2190425,3a,75y,6...
Heck, even gas stations around my area have signs stating "VIDEO GAMING" like it will draw in patrons with nothing better to do.
The convenience shop down the street from me (Chicago outskirts) routinely has people occupying seats and looking dejected, but not actually playing any of the gambling games when I'm there.
Will you be planning to contribute on the osu!lazer project again?
Yeah, we had some weird experiences at an Air B and B which seemed to be part of an ongoing attack that we were experiencing at the time. You can read about all that here if you are so inclined:https://www.scribd.com/document/389212460/Antisemitism-in-We...
Passion gets you shitcanned when your desire to get stuff done conflicts with office politics. Unless you are a founder, and actually are a unicorn or can provide a much needed service, fuck passion. Do it for the money.
You're probably right, although many carpet cleaners also clean hard surfaces/flooring with the same equipment (truck mounted hot water extractor machine) Probably not 20+ years if you're working daily, but not every year.
Nor Vienna, nor Berlin are considered to be the business centres of Europe.
What's hard to get from this is a sense of quality. For one, professionals have a hard time nailing down what a "quality bug" is - if given a few different bugs and told to rank them, you could probably come up with some ranking of your own, but it would probably be different from your coworkers, bosses, customers, etc. So that sucks. However there are also reported findings that most people could agree are low to no value. How much of those show up in bounty programs vs. internal finds or commissioned audits? Of the people at the top of the distribution, how many of them are reporting many high quality finds, or spray-and-pray with lots of chaff? Are there "diamonds in the rough" near the bottom that only get out one or two a year but they are high quality? Is that an indicator that if those reporters could be given full time jobs doing audits, their productivity would rise?
It's a business, so you'll have to figure out some of it yourself. Otherwise it would be a job.
"We showed him an ad. He bought the vacuum cleaner."

'In that order?'

"Shhhh, just give us money."

Half-joking there -- in a previous discussion, the claim was that the ad-buyers don't care enough to check for whether these product-buyers were ones that had already seen an ad, or it was after the fact.
Job Promotion is a Trap
Because they have other more important goals like not compromising their core values and undoing 50 years of history of the EU for the benefit of a single country that doesn't even care about the EU.
I suggest that you re-read the things you've written about her with the following question in mind: "Am I making excuses for her behavior?"
I think most of the research like these are pretty much useless. This is because they assume that the success of a startup has correlation with the founders/co-founders - there well might be, but imo the biggest correlation with success is time.

Some startups go bust when they are launched in an unfavourable climate - sometimes the tech is too raw, othertimes the market is just not ready. Move them a couple of years before or after and they take off. Lots of startups which take off, dont keep the momentum - market forces disrupt startups a lot more than the other way around.

When a startup takes off, often for no fault of the founders/co-founders - it creates a strong incentive for the founders to keep aligned and work together. If a startup does not take off it creates a strong incentive for founders to NOT work together.

Often when a startup takes off - or if it raises a big round from a huge VC it creates a strong signal for co-founders to get on board. Case in point is dropbox - they got accepted into YC and it allowed the founder to 'hire' a co-founder.
> Intent targeting

I wonder how effective it is actually.

The narrative we are lead to believe is that the user will be thankful to get the information it needs surfaced right in front of them. Or the difference between the paid ad and the organic results will be blurry enough to not have an impact.

Yet I think it works only if:

- the ad effectively matches what the user is looking for (that's not a given, even amazon throws a lot of random things supposed to be in relation to search results), and if the product pushed by the ad is seen as legit.

- the ad is from a brand the user somewhat trust in the first place. For instance most people won't choose an ad from an unknown phone maker if they were searching for an iPhone (or they're getting scammed, and that's another issue). I see very few things average people would just search on Google and buy from a random supplier, especially for mortgage or anything high value.

What I am getting at is, there's a significant amount of effort needed on the vendor part to make an ad work, and I wouldn't be surprised if the brands going these length are not already appearing pretty high in the search results in the first place. Having the top stop could still make a difference, but that's just a nudge, and not something critical or that valuable compared to the rest.
Should we blame AWS for this?
<3 Thanks for your work on Sway, wlroots and sr.ht ! I use all three every day.
We've started the thread with concrete examples...

Check the @pjc50, @Traster etc comments at the top.

And @humanrebar already put this in abstract form: "It's worth noting that luminary capitalists like Adam Smith were very much concerned with privately enabled rent seekers in addition to government enabled ones"
Data Science Predictions for 2019
AirBnB's aren't that great, just another service that has already been refined. In hotels you might not be getting what you pay for, but at least there is a level of consistency for major chains. In AirBnB's you're left to the wims of the household that sets you up for the night or week. If the place doesn't have something, most of the time you're not going to call the home owners, but a hotel you have no problem calling the main lobby if there is an issue at 2 am.
Good point. My father operated the business out of his home, the most expensive thing he "needed" was a heated garage which prevented his machine/lines from freezing. Before this, he used space heaters inside his van.

Machine maintenance was his largest cost, and because he had to perform most repairs himself (due to financial restraints), it kept him up at night.

When he started the business again after we moved, he saved enough to buy a new truck/machine which helped ease him mind. However a machine you use everyday stops being "new" rather quickly.
Title suggestion: nuclear - Popcorn Time for music

It's nice to know the project's name
Regarding anime, I think anime has its fair share of constant politicking. In fact, I recall several important anime being discussed in political discourse in japan- especially among the depiction of homosexual relationships/homosexuality as an identity and how sexualised depictions of young girls can be. I myself am not japanese, but I am aware of this discourse occuring among people I know who are far more expertise on the subject than I am. I encourage looking into this matter if you are curious.

I think that the balance is quite confused- as I stated before, the most well-lauded works are almost all highly political, especially in science fiction. My confusion is that there is a claim there is too much politics in a field whose foundational works are all political works. This makes me believe that it is not that it is political, but that political views around certain narratives are less acceptable than other political views, and are considered "too far". The actual lines are quite fuzzy and filled with nuance, similar to the essayist's experiences with being an "African writer".
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I really think showing them how it works visually with a DAG is a great way to show someone how git works. Also, Linus has a great talk about git and how it works here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

(Sorry for mobile link, I'm on my phone RN)
I'm not specifically focused on anything, I just mention a single well-known fact (which you can easily verify) to dispel that I'm just "voicing my intuition" and "not based on anything".

Now if you sincerely believe ugly people face even worse persecution than this, go ahead and argue this with the knowledge and evidence you have. Don't just poison the well and move the goalpost - that makes people assume you are not arguing in good faith.
Right now those people get food stamps and welfare
Sears survives bankruptcy auction and will keep 400 stores open
We understand your pain related to difficulties to get started with blockchain protocols. One of our goals actually makes it as easy as possible to interact with. Unfortunately, the time that we invest in such adaptation isn't enough, but we have tight terms for our roadmap realization.
Honestly dont get why Airbnb doesnt make /buy a lock mechanism and gives it to hosts. A simple key padlock suffices for 90% of the cases.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18919101
I love this writing style. Thank you. Would like to see more!
I started out with that attitude and had major passion and a real serious interest, but so far the alienation and exploitation of salary work in my last two corporate fortune 100 jobs has me wanting to end tech all together. I don't even enjoy tech anymore due to work, even in my personal time. Burn out is real.

Thinking about another career.
Research in cell, animal, and human software simulation can speed up experiments
Adding to the list of great options here: I'm part of a team based out of MIT that has been building an open-source, hosted journal publishing platform called PubPub: https://pubpub.org

We're part of a group trying to address some of the larger ecosystem problems in knowledge creation and ownership discussed in this thread called the Knowledge Futures Group (https://kfg.mit.edu/). We've just setup a discourse forum for folks interested in working with us (https://discourse.knowledgefutures.org).
What's interesting to me (as a guitarist) isn't who was "first", because there was obviously a zeitgeist technical need for solid body guitars. Rather, it's what designs and innovations have stood the test of time, and why.

The real winner here, I think, is the Telecaster. They're still made in droves, still immensely popular, and have been the backbone of millions of recorded tracks. And it's easy to see why. They're dead simple, making them both inexpensive to manufacture and straightforward to play. And the biting, aggressive bridge pickup tone cuts through walls of other loud instruments in a way that is much harder for the round, warm tone of a Les Paul.

Bigsby guitars are a historical curiosity. Rickenbackers are still made, but are a rare exotic most guitarists will never play. Les Pauls are a pricey luxury item.

But Telecasters! Telecasters are the sound of rock'n'roll flipping a middle finger to everything that's supposed to be "good". I love them.
No, it's sad in the same sense gigahours wasted in front of TVs are sad.
I find that after a few weeks of training, Apple News does a much better job of picking stories I'm interested in than Google News. With two exceptions:

There doesn't appear to be a way to filter out sports I'm not interested in, or even all sports.

Apple News has a hard time telling the difference between Paris, France and Paris Hilton.
I've been looking at AirBNBs recently for a vacation. The small guy is an outlier anymore. Most of the listings are obviously professional, ie they do it for a living and have multiple properties and property managers. The network is hard to unravel since the companies behind the "hosts" create many profiles, but it is easy to see that its not just Carla or Emily or Cody offering up their apartment while they go on holiday. I've been on AirBNB for more than 6 years and have hosted as well, but the rules as well as the standards have tilted heavily to favor the big players.
> Me too - but I do wonder sometimes if there's a long game involved, where it's more likely to make you recommend it, or give it as a gift. I can't quite see how that would work in practice, but it just seems so utterly stupid otherwise.

I'm going to go with Occam's razor here: the advertisers are not scarily competent but instead typically bumbling and stupid.
>"Assuming what you say is true"

Don't take my word for it. Follow the links to what the primary literature says.

>"being next to useless for meaningful physics or medical news"

Well, to be fair the "amyloid hypothesis" is still the mainstream hypothesis. It's just that this is for reasons that are baffling to me. Afaict, it has nothing going for it at all vs the prior "cholinergic" hypothesis (which has resulted in treatments that actually appear to do something for the patient).
vetur doesn't give you cross-module type checking
> Popcorn Time for Music

but where is the torrent client?
> On the other hand, maybe so much peer rejection means something...

Only if the conclusion was arrived at independently and wasn't a product of groupthink. Software development is extremely prone to groupthink and exaggerated dogmatic thinking (blind hatred for PHP (and Javascript up until SPAs became a thing), religious wars over linux/mac, your text editor of choice, language of choice, OOP vs FP and so on). Often an idea catches on and suddenly a large percentage of vocal developers are all echoing the same sentiment.

Electron is a memory hog and a weird platform given it ships with so much overhead, sure. But it's fast to develop on, and with modern machines you can run multiple electron apps at the same time. There's just no viable alternative - building a cross platform desktop app without it requires going back in time 20 years and having to learn a bunch of complicated nonsense about memory management and object lifecycles (and I'm saying this as someone who knows said nonsense fairly well) just to draw some buttons on a screen. And all that effort for 1/10th of the UI flexibility that HTML/CSS/JS affords you.

In other words, electron is OK because the alternatives suck. That doesn't mean it's good but it's the best of a terrible bunch.