skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As soon as GOT is done, I'll likely cancel HBO - it doesn't add much value.

This is basically my philosophy with streaming services. I keep Prime because it's useful all-around, and Netflix (for now) still has enough variety to keep me as a subscriber (though I wouldn't be surprised if I jumped ship to Disney later this year).

But beyond that, why not choose a la carte? I'm signing up for HBO when GoT airs, and I'll binge True Detective in between, but beyond that I don't care much about it. Hulu I signed up for a month and then immediately canceled; watched all I cared to in that time. I binged Star Trek within the one-week CBS trial period.

It would be nice to have a Mint-like streaming services dashboard I could use to selectively toggle on and off various streaming accounts when I decide they've built up enough content I haven't seen to warrant activating for a month. There's a product idea for ya.
My browser being able to modify network configuration files. Now there's something I don't want.
People with boring jobs tend to design dull jobs for their colleagues
>how great would it be if software developers could hire someone like this but to handle job outreach and negotiation?

How have you not heard of recruiters? I get spammed by them almost every day.
Minor point: I'm curious about someone paying for channels via Prime. I also have Prime but no other channels via Prime...but because of a seemingly silly reason: the Prime App is awful - both slow and buggy - so i would NOT want to experience those other channels through the Prime app. I'll be honest I've actually never tried to add/pay for other channels via Prime, so i'm making a BIG assumption that they would play through the Prime App. My experience has been quite positive with the netflix app, awful with Prime App, also awful with hulu App, and so-so/not terrible with hbo's separate App....and these are all via my dedicated roku 3 device. If you seem to have a positive experience with those additional channels via Prime, curious to learn more about your set up? Are using roku device, etc.?
Gekko – Open source Bitcoin trading bot platform
I’ve used DoorDash and Grubhub quite a bit. They’re both quick, reliable, and generally seem to care more than your average pizza delivery driver. The drivers will typically go out of their way to make sure you get your food on time and still hot. Maybe it’s just my area, but I’ve mostly switched from restaurants that self-deliver to these two companies.
Yes sadly ads and tracking have become the same. While I certainly don't enjoy ads and have reservations about the ethics of ads altogether - I'm 100% totally against tracking, profiling, and targeting. I allow ads on DuckDuckGo since they are related to what I'm actively searching - but other then that I block all ads since I know they are also tracking me.
European tech scene is completely dominated by US companies, this one company (unknown to people outside the tech scene) won't change that at all.
Python without GIL to provide real shared-memory threading would address 90% of my issues with the language.
Sometimes shifting the wording to: "I choose to play Legos with my kids" or "I choose to feed my kids" can help confirm that you're doing things just the way you want to be doing them.

I raised 3 small kids and it's easy to feel constrained. When I realized that everything I was doing was my choice, I felt less guilty about not doing X, Y and Z. Instead I was just prioritizing and choosing to do other things with my time.

So technically, yes you can choose to exercise 30min a day but it's also perfectly reasonable to choose sleep, playing with your kids, etc.
I suggest reading an actual NewsGuard "nutrition label" before commenting on what's missing from them.

* https://www.newsguardtech.com/ratings/sample-nutrition-label...

Here's someone who has:

* http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/08/newsguard-considers-fox-new...
Wtf! It never crossed my mind that that "Print" might be different from the "Print" in the File menu, or the "Print" triggered by "Ctrl-P". Why?!
Because none of that is necessary for the vast majority of people. And torrents are free.
Tim Cook doth protest too much about privacy
I have this running on the VPS I run a a SOCKS proxy on and surf through. Works great.
It really speeds up sites with annoying ads or ads with scripts that hang.

The annoying thing is that it blocks direct links on deal sites etc.
From the article:

"When the communicating parties have common secret key, deniable encryption can be simple. For instance, the
one-time pad (OTP) scheme is perfectly deniable: having sent c = k ⊕ m, the parties can claim that they sent
any plaintext m0 by claiming that k0 = c ⊕ m0 is their true key. In fact, it turns out that the key size in any deniable encryption scheme has to be at least as large as the size of a plaintext (since there should exist a
different key for any possible fake plaintext), and in this sense OTP is “the best possible” symmetric-key
deniable encryption.

But what if no pre-shared secret key is available? Is it possible to communicate fully deniably even in this
case?"
People need it, yes. And they use C to do it. But C wasn't designed for it. C was designed to write programs for Unix, which fit this description.
I have a 240+ core cluster running on GCE now with additional appengine frontend for some api items, and I loathe the environment. I've used Heroku, AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, and IBM SoftLayer in the past. I worked on service readiness and billing on Azure at Microsoft.

If it works for you thats good, but it wouldn't be my first choice even if I found it to cost less than other alternatives.
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Show HN: Cuetip – small SCSS library for creating CSS-only tooltips
fun fact. if the plant dies it will release it's gas again like other plans. seems kind of futile 'solution' just dumping the problem on future generations .. as always
Vetusware.com: Archive of old software
By golly, Linux does map 0.0.0.0 to localhost. That produced a bunch of searches to try to find out why it does that. Nothing found. At this point I strongly suspect that Linux is simply exhibiting incorrect behaviour...

It does it for :: as well...
> Travis is obsolete, and they did it to themselves.

This is sad, but the conclusion I have come to over the last 3-4 years as well. It was anybody's market 4 years ago, but through a sustained pace I think CircleCI have out-executed Travis consistently.

The thing I find interesting is that, looking at Semaphore CI who used to be far behind Travis, they are now biting at the heels of CircleCI with their 2.0 iteration. From what I understand they are not venture backed and are a smaller team, and yet their product is starting to look like a real competitor. To me this says that Travis just failed to execute well enough, rather than Circle having more money (although that helps).
It's very basic, though.
I built a very simple neural-network app a few years ago with Julia, and while the project was fun and I didn't think the language was bad by any means, as someone who does software for a living I had trouble seeing why compsci people really got into it.

I could totally see someone like my dad using it (he's an aerospace engineer, not software), but I have friends who work in compsci in academia trying to evangelize the language.

Not trying to start a war here, but I'm curious what more-seasoned Julia vet might have seen that someone with only ~12 hours with the language wouldn't.
Thanks for the input! I may experiment with the subtitle. I had other strategies in mind with the current one – but that was a whole year ago, and I know much more now.
I feel like that's the point of Python - only provide the barebones of what you might need initially, and then make importing the rest fast and easy. For most use cases Pythons default collections work just fine (what does an array have that a list doesn't for everyday use?), but if you need more power, just import and go.
You mean you don't like that the methods are declared outside of the struct?

Or that you have to say foo(x) instead of x.foo()?

The latter makes writing code using autocomplete less doable, but reads more naturally in many cases.

I can't think of compelling pragmatic reason to mind the former, but if you have one I'd like to hear it.
The problem with Neodymium magnets is that they are notoriously fragile and can chip easily or even explode after being kicked (and the tiny parts would rearrange in unpredictable ways around your nerves and capillars). You don't want such thing happening inside your flesh probably

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt8NOdINJ1s
The backup system in north america is a manual impression scan, where a carbon copy impression of the front of the card is made for later offline processing. Is this not available as a backup for when the electronic methods go down?
Thanks for this: MS FS was literally the first PC game I ever tried to play on my grandfathers 386 - and I failed miserably for years.
Bodyweight training is incredibly effective. The problem is that it's simple and free, so you'll find very few people trying to sell you on it. Much of the noise about exercise is from someone selling you a program or some equipment.
It's a hard concept to wrap your head around. Eons of time have passed for us, planets have formed, entire species have evolved, flourished and become extinct, ice ages have happened, wars, humanity has grown up and has reached a point where we're on the cusp of escaping the boundaries of this rock we call home... but for the light, it blinked into existence and out again, in a moment, time and distance completely irrelevant to its existence... it's as if instead of traveling across our space and time, it is merely passing through from some other dimension.
My point is the HN audience is more adept than normal people. The Usenet automation and setup requires more technical knowledge than say drag and dropping a torrent file into a torrent program.
Everyone's heard of recruiters, but most recruiters just don't do most of the above.

Recruiters are often essentially human banner ads for job postings, and generally don't do most of the above. (Particularly since recruiters work for the company, not the applicant)
Nitpicky, but the Macedonia naming situation isn't over yet.

Northern Macedonia was a proposal, but the referendum to adopt it failed to attract 50% of the voters. Unless I've missed some big news since then, FYROM is still its official name.

Regardless, it is a bad example since they are forced to use that name because of Greece. Other former Yugoslav Republics don't have such issues.
zotfile is a must-have for Zotero! Thank you for making it.
Historically 0 based is for low level languages. 0 based makes sense for C.

My issue is higher level languages Python, Java, C# there is plenty of things that just are complicated and doing arrays off 0 is one of them. Doing data science or statistics just makes it obvious that you have two different sets on numbers. 1 doesn't mean the same thing in every instance in your programming and the functional programming side of me hates that.
Thought Train 2 – An app that'll replace your sticky notes
If anyone visited on a mobile device and saw an odd page layout, the mobile view should now be fixed. At least one mobile browser handled a CSS declaration unexpectedly.
I was referring to the anti-Russian sentiment brewing in both countries. Russia has, after all, engaged in a military conflict with Georgia on behalf of South Ossetia in 2008. The two countries have been enemies since some time before that, and remain in hostility towards each other.

The big difference, of course, is that Mesopotamia is unlikely to commit crimes on foreign soil any time soon because you dismiss its territorial ambitions... unless I'm missing something everyone else gets here.
Thanks for reading and commenting. As for breaking down the $50,000, what did you have in mind? It was simply selling 16,000 copies.

I suppose I could break down every foreign rights deal and what was ebooks vs paperback, but given the reporting of my publisher, that would be like reading tea leaves. Would that be helpful in some way?
Take a few seconds to read that guys comment and I hope you will see that "wut" is the exact correct response.
Adobe Acquires Allegorithmic (maker of Substance Designer)
Show HN: Image converter built in Python and React (beta testing)
Hey guys, this is my first post on HN so please let me know if I did something incorrectly.

I've been programming for a few months seriously now and have created my first full-stack application: an online picture converter.

It features a full REST api, integrated payments through Stpipe, user conversion limits and tracking, and an overall a nice conversion experience (in my opinion). It was built with React for the front-end, and Python (Flask) for the back-end.

Before I officially launch it, I would like to show it to HN for some feedback. As this is my first complete application, I fear I may not have discovered and fixed all of the bugs yet, hence why I would ask any one interested to give this app a test!

For testing purposes, the payments have been turned off and any account registered will be given the highest conversion limits to play around with. At the end of the beta (no exact date) everything will be wiped and the site will launch officially (emails will be sent prior to warn beta users).

I'm interested in bugs relating to converting images to different formats, security vulnerabilities, functionality of the API, and overall UX improvements to be made.

Here's the link to the app: https://www.letsconvert.app
I was able to acquire that ability by emailing them and explaining the open source need. They were quite reasonable.
Jboss EAP 7.2 released (Fully supporting Java EE 8)
Ahh, I've always wondered if there was a way to get around those detections. I have learned something new today. Thank you!
Its wikipedia page does make it look rather good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics
New research recovers nutrients from seafood processing water
Excuse me if I don't buy the BS excuse that an ad company limiting adblockers is somehow for my own protection.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978404

None so far...
I was extremely surprised to learn one of what I thought was Netflix's first original shows is not in fact owned by them: Orange is the New Black. According to this piece on Netflix's general problem (https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/7/18166911/netflix-friend...), it is actually owned by Lionsgate, and I assume Netflix has an exclusive distribution deal.
I had a job about 7 years ago doing Coldfusion and Flash. Coldfusion is 1 indexed and Actionscript is 0 indexed...this threw me off enough to the point of having a near-religious aversion towards explicit indexing, and while I've largely drunk the functional Kool-aid where I almost exclusively use maps and filters and reduce.

I really do with the 1 indexing had stayed around, since I feel like it's more natural to say the 1st element, instead of the 0th.
This is the most intellectually dishonest thing I've read in a while. Claims to have a bunch of data, then abandons the data as soon as its analysis time. It's pretty obvious the data collected didn't correlate with the author's preconceived idea of what he wanted to find. The whole article is a bunch of mental gymnastics trying to codify an opinion with so-called data points, but only the ones that concur with the hypothesis. Total garbage, whoever wrote this should be ashamed of themselves. If real science was carried out this way, we'd never have invented a microprocessor.
Install Gas Mask, easy way to paste file
Well, they do have your CC info...
Make a Banana Pi R2 Router: Banana Pi R2 OpenWRT Installation and Review
Same. My Macbook also took significantly longer to boot when using a large host file - like an approximately 45 seconds freeze...
Show HN: Curious trips optimized by duration and budget
What must I learn:.NET/ASP.NET/C# or .NET core/asp.net core/C#?
What must I learn:.NET/ASP.NET/C# or .NET core/asp.net core/C#?
CircleCI has a free tier for private repos, same with Gitlab.
What is higher level: IT manager and IT leader, and what are job titles of both?
What is higher level: IT manager & IT leader, and what are job titles of both?
There's a difference between an organization representing the public interest, (air quality), and some for-profit megacorp looking to maximize profits, often at the expense of public interest.

Pretending there isn't is just dumb.

Also, unless they gave him campaign cash, I doubt they'd even be able to get the same kind of a hearing a corporate donor would, but my solution to this is to not allow any campaign contributions at all and to have public financing of elections, so that there's a greater chance politicians will actually represent what the people want.
> Netflix is hanging on, barely

My problem with Netflix is that it's being more and more user-hostile. It only displays shows it thinks I like, and not everything. And the top band does a horrid autoplay banner. I've still yet to figure out what elements I need to watch to disable that in HTML.

Hulu is also pretty hostile with lots of adverts, but a recent uBlock update fixed that. Now the advert timer goes from 30->15->0 but does black screen for a few seconds. But this service was for $1/mo for a year. After that, we'll cancel unless offered a similar deal.

But I certainly get the piracy angle. I don't want or need 6 streaming services. I wanted 1 or really cheap ala-carte. Instead, it's "Subscribe to Cable, and pay for streaming extra" for a lot of shows. And no.
When I see things like this I think of the average user who may not be technically savy enough to implement this type of configuration. If Google blocks things like uBlock origin and ABP, how can we help less tech-savy users have an ad-free experience?
I concur - "Systemantics" (now "The Systems Bible") is an excellent book. I had a boss turn me onto it in the 1980s, and to this day I still quote from it, and re-read it about once a decade just to keep the lessons fresh.
There are lots of better languages that compile to JS and don’t let you make mistakes in the same way the two grand parents do. Just saying JS is complicated to make typed is completely true and not a good reason to use TS; it doesn’t excuse the fact that I spend all this time doing a Typescript dance and still wonder if my Types have weird flaws.

I would encourage people to consider Reason or Dart or Elm or even plain old ES6 before they decide Typescript solves their problem.
Probably explains Fortans continued hold on numerical computing
Complete automation, no seeding, less risky download sources, less risk of your ISP complaining about BitTorrent traffic, and an almost nil chance of getting a nasty legal letter for seeding.

Plus the Usenet servers are usually much faster than torrents. With Gigabit I am seeing much faster speeds.
To name a few: beautiful type system, optional typing, multiple dispatch...

edit: as another comment mentioned, metaprogramming is also great!
Such a pool, assuming you're not the only person using it, is usually a rather well-used patch of land, as opposed to the space needed for an entire skiing resort, considering outdoor pools are also used seasonally. And even if you are the only person using it, you likely still have much more bang per square meter with a pool. I haven't heard of a pool that is as extensive as a skiing resort, stretching through often tens of kilometers of otherwise undisturbed nature.

But yeah, I'll admit it, I don't really believe my feet will decide the vote on where to draw the line here, though, therefore I have to try make skiing look as bad as I possibly can.
Seconding this - bodyweight training is exactly how I got started in fitness for a year before eventually signing up for a gym after moving to the city. The /r/bodyweightfitness subreddit http://reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness is a great resource with pre-made plans to ensure you're hitting all your muscle groups evenly. Highly recommend it!
I would highly recommend reading this recent post in the Julia forums [1]. It's from a "relatively new" Julia user explaining why Julia is actually a very good general purpose language, e.g. for string manipulation of scraped data. You do have a good point about packages, though: The problem is that the user base is smaller than Python's so some packages have yet to be created. And since the userbase is currently largely numerical programmers, non-numerical packages are more likely to be missing.

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/not-only-for-technical-com...
Ok, so just to make it sure I understand:

1) It is not listed in the debian wiki

2) To access the "methods" i need to install a gopher client

That's pretty much a definition of the "handwave! Workaround!"

P.S. I have implemented a workaround. It works. It is just not a solution. I should not need to assign people to resign the packages with our own keys and create utilities that would duplicate Debian tools to provide a nominal access to regular required functionality by a large organization that has packages with hundreds of dependencies and could have 5-20 versions of the apps in different production/test/validation/qa environments. Joe Random Engineer expects that his knowledge of how apt-get works, how dpkg works and how puppet works to be portable.
Ehn, it's no biggie. Tagir did most of the code (and owns the commits), I'm just a hominid rebase bot.
The target of julia is computional sciences. Sure for a web apps you don't care if your language is 30x slower, 1ms or 30us who cares, you can just rely on the raw speed of your overpowered computer and enjoy your favorite language.

But when it's between waiting 1 day or 1 month for your results you start caring quite a lot
Interesting; where does it fall down for you?
True. Most of Netflix's "Search Experience" ends in disappointment. No wonder they want to hide that feature.
It's extremely expressive. Notably, Julia is homoiconic, with full lisp-style macros. It also has multiple dispatch, which is a far more general technique that OO single-dispatch. This makes it very easy to define modular interfaces that work much like statically-typed type classes in Haskell. This allows you, for example, to define a custom matrix type for your bespoke sparse matrix layout and have it work seamlessly with existing linear algebra types.

I've done a lot of work in both Python with Scipy/Numpy, and Julia. Python is painfully inexpressive in comparison. Not only this, but Julia has excellent type inference. Combined with the JIT, this makes it very fast. Inner numerical loops can be nearly as fast as C/Fortran.

Expanding on the macro system, this has allowed things like libraries that give easy support for GPU programming, fast automatic differentiation, seamless Python interop, etc.
Judging by how mindlessly mozilla has been copying chrome anti-features, expect this in firefox too.
Amazon Prime isn't fixed cost though - anything remotely worth watching on there costs extra.

I'm not paying £7.99 on top of my existing subscription just to watch a 30-year-old movie I've already seen 15 times.
Perhaps, they treat it as a variant of the Latin script:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_type:

Unicode treats the Gaelic script as a font variant of the Latin alphabet.
What about running oracle on a google instance with a regional disk? Sure, it's not as sexy as a managed service but functionally it would be very similar.
Neural ODE's: Understanding how they model data