skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth mentioning that Science Advances is a relatively new open-access journal, which is distinct from and significantly lower status than the journal Science. Although I can't speak to the reputation of Science Advances, Nature has a very similar sister journal, Scientific Reports, that is distinctly mediocre.
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I had say 2000 buble bursting also played part. It was easier to survive for a nimble startup and hard for behemoth with huge employee count and little revenues. I wonder if that didn’t happened then if we would have more competition in this space.
It wasn't exactly a huge mystery what was happening there, but it's always nice when someone makes the longform explanation.
'such stuff', subjective and irrational as it is, was the foundation of all science last time i looked.
I didn't know that Bovonto existed even then. I knew about their Paneer Soda (which they've rebranded now). Anyways, Bovonto would make a great case-study for Entrepreneurs and MBAs how to grow an in-house brand and compete with Global brands.
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Give HN an article about a guy being squeezed out of his job for thought-crime, and what do we do with that?

Bitch about our own gilded cages for not giving us enough exercise, of course.

That's how we roll baby!
As well as the fact that their neighbours drove on the right, the argument was made that switching sides would reduce accidents due to Swedes mostly owning left-hand drive cars. There were fewer accidents initially, but things returned to historic levels pretty soon thereafter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H
You can use any indexing scheme you like now.

Arrays can start at [-100] if you feel like it.

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/
> When I see people barefoot in a public restroom wearing a t-shirt full of holes I don't think about getting work done.

Why not?
https://bogdancornianu.com/

My name is Bogdan Cornianu and this is my blog where I write technical stuff, do book reviews, post projects I'm working on and also favorite movies and TV shows.
helium

solution, for those busy or lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8mzDvpKzfY
This sounds like Calibre codebase is a mess that needs to be refactored.
Yep. it s a trendy subject. I would wait 3 years before taking any of them seriously
in the things i didnt know but now i have to try category...
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> Not just because I have offspring but because I'm doing a ton of things I haven't done in years, decades.

One of the great things in being a parent is that I can once more forget myself for hours when building snow castles or burrowing tunnels into a snow mountain at the end of the street, and no one bats an eye 'because kids'. Having kids also changes you in a way that you once more remember how awesome that was in the first place.
Because Python2's end of life is announced. There'll be no Python 2.8, 2.9 or future. It may get some security fixes, but it'll be abandoned then.
Google Takeout exports everything from your Google account (including GMusic) to a series of .zips, you can also choose to transfer those archives to Dropbox or wherever.
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Please note that my point wasn't about making a pissing contest on which country is the best or whether the US should adopt anything from any other country. I was simply replying to the claim that America is the beacon of liberty that everyone wants to go move to. That's a bit ridiculous statement to a bunch of people around the world.
If you live in LA, there is a place called Air Hollywood that does precisely that:

http://panamexperience.com/our-story/
> By what measure do you want to back up the claim that the current system is far more energy intensive? I'm trying to find one and honestly struggling.

how much damage financial and environmental have politicians and military have caused over the last 5 thousand years? yep, take that into account in your calculations.
PG-Strom is a great way to make postgres faster. Nice. But if the purpose is here to build very fast and responsive system which is interacting with other gpu tools well then snap I don't see how it can compete.

The old school way of, run this query, get my results, read those results using something like jdbc, is too slow. You can literally take out the "run this query" portion and it will still be slower than what we believe needs to exist to power GPU accelerated workloads.

We are trying to keep up with the pace of hardware improvements that NVIDIA has been churning out. Moving a result set from Postgres ==> "wherever I need to be" by performing copies and making allocations for that data is a cost we want to save people from.
Aside: I think this whole "status thing" is hurting scientific progress. You want to work in academia? Better publish x papers a year in a "reputable journal". This attitude is what leads to quantity over quality approach, and results in all the p-hacking and overhyping. Negative results are likely to go unpublished.
i know some people who think math is nonsense. turns out that they don't know any. So i must ask if its nonsense to infer that you have no experience with families and people other than your own circle, no experience with subtle factors of any kind?

if so, you'd be quite vulnerable the next time someone offers you a double bind.
LOIS BBS stuck around for a while after the internet was created. For a while you could telnet to it. It was really popular on the central coast of California and as folks got jobs, moved around, that was a way for people to keep in touch. I remember seeing multiple split-66 blocks in the sysops room the BBS was running from, with a couple dozen phone lines. It's sysop (Pete a.k.a. Communicator) passed away and the BBS was run by another member for a while and then it eventually faded away.

There were a lot of great memories created from that group of people. Given the localization aspect of BBS's in the day, it was common for a lot of people to meet up on a regular basis.
I think it's highly unlikely that there is any meaningful causal link between a particular parenting style and Schizophrenia.

We currently have a very robust physiological understanding of the disorder, and the symptomatology is linked to observable structural changes in the brains of Schizophrenic individuals.

As with many psychological disorders, there appears to be a stress component: i.e. individuals may be more or less predisposed to the disorder, and therefore some individuals will only ever experience symptoms if triggered by a high level of stress, while for others it's unavoidable.

So in some cases, yes it's possible that a problematic family life was the stressor that pushed them over the edge to develop full-blown Schizophrenia, but that person might have equally been effected by being mugged at gunpoint, or going through prolonged sleep deprivation during basic training in the military.

The causal mechanism is almost certainly an interaction with Cortisol or other stress hormones, or some other well understood biological pathway. It's outdated pseudoscience at this point to take seriously the idea that Schizophrenia is the result of mixed messages during childhood.
You can create your own clean minimalist epubs. None of that cruft is mandated, you can simply choose to not use any of it. Don't want to enforce a font? Don't specify one. Don't want a stylesheet? Don't put one in.
"Funkzellenabfrage" - That's a great word. Is there a word describing the ability of the German language to condense English phrases into a single word? :)
Not to mention the directory is easy to scan, rsync, backup & so on without having to worry about breaking consistency in some database.

A filesystem is perfectly fine, if used correctly, for the average ebook reader use-case.

If you have 10 million ebooks and need to run 100 complex searches per second then you need an RDBMS.
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...and it needs a huge amount of dependencies. And RAM.
I think what you're saying is that an example is not generally proof that just anyone can. It goes a long way in disproving that its impossible, however. There could be a large amount of luck involved in everything and we just don't know it.
Remarkable the word “Israel” appears once and “Zionism” appears 0 times in this post.

I’m not a person who gets “offended” by political or even “controversial” political statements, but here’s a guy who made Farrakhan-esqe statements about Jews (not even about “zionists”) like that we are termites and need to be destroyed and stuff.

Now he’s got a blog about how much life is different! Well—Good for us! People like this must be marginalized. You shouldn’t be able to just say entire populations should be exterminated. It’s just not right, even if you have legit problems with said populations. It’s bad to kill large groups of people, or ideate publicly mass homocide, it’s just not right. That’s what this guy did. If he wants “free speech” he can go on Gab but good for academia not paying for him for it.

I guess he just wants to move past the whole issue, but he doesn’t mention the part where he called for mass death to zionists and Jews in general, and that feels like a bit of an omission.
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nope, you're the one talking nonsense. when your bank tells you you have $100 on your account - it's a lie, all you have is a record in a database and never actual $100 in a safe to back that up.

all you have is trust that the bank will provide you $100 when you ask for it.

when you have 100BTC, you actually have 100BTC.

how is that hard to understand?
Julia is typesafe as both of c# / swift. Supporting programming in large has no meaning at all.
Last time I checked, ~US$30k per development license...just in case anyone was wondering.
LoL. It's 2019. There's no reason why start index should be fixed... Treat arrays as optimised hashmaps, and let users pick a default!

Edit: ah, a sibling comment (now deleted) mentions Julia does have some support for arbitrary indices ("offset arrays").

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/offset-arrays/
No I mean it is relatively painless to build a Swift executable using the package manager on Ubuntu. Doing the same with an Objective-C executable which relies on the runtime is probably several days of work.
>Python ... the language forms the basis for Facebook’s PyTorch and Google’s TensorFlow frameworks

The state of journalism today ... their Github repo web pages show that there's more C++ than Python in both repos.
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> paNeer soda

Cheese soda? U+1F928
To be honest the best part of Calibre, the `ebook-convert` tool, is already broken out from the rest of it. It's similar to pandoc though in my opinion often does a nicer job.
Aparently not true.

https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...
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a demo would be nice, something with https://asciinema.org or similar so we can get a feel of how it works without installing it.
You may not upgrade to the next iPhone model, but are you going to switch to another platform? If not, then you're still in Apple's ecosystem and generating some revenue and opportunity for them, aren't you?

iPhones age better than other phones. You can also get them to a service and get a batter replacement and they're like brand new after two years of use. You can't really say the same thing about the other phone makers, it depends on luck really. I've had Nexus and Samsung phones die on me after less than 2 years.

This need to update your phone every year or every two years is insane, the peak of consumerism. And iPhones are now good enough that you don't have to do it. I've seen multiple people using the iPhone 6 and not upgrading to 6s, 7, 8, X or XS.

I mean, as a society, shouldn't we be glad that we're no longer buying a new phone every year? Think of how much junk that generates.

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> MacBooks are worse now than they were since 2015. I won't upgrade until they get rid of the TouchBar. I would rather go back to Windows than use that stupid TouchBar.

You're exaggerating. Personally I don't mind it that much. The only problem is the ESC key, otherwise I never touch typed the F keys. And I like having the fingerprint scanner.

You actually haven't mentioned the problem with more recent laptops (post 2017) which is the quality of the keyboard. Mine is still working after a year, fingers crossed, but I heard you can get it replaced for free.

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> Apple software is terrible. iTunes is still the worst piece of software that I'm forced to use. The bugs they've had are inexcusable.

Personally I don't use iTunes. I never understood people that do.
You've also just mentioned the worst piece of software that Apple makes and it's kind of unfair because it's not representative of everything Apple makes.

I also have access to laptops using Linux and Windows and for me MacBooks still have the best ecosystem. And their laptops are still the best, even if overpriced.

If that weren't true, then you wouldn't see a majority of developers at software conferences with MacBooks.
You haven’t needed iTunes (or any other tool) to manage an iPhone since iOS 5.0.
On PPA you need to trust a random individual instead of trusting an official distribution. Some distribution requires multiple pair of (skilled) eyes to vet a package.
I think this would come under "agglutination"[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination
Also, and thats the main thing keeping me from having an iPhone at this point, is that, even after paying a premium price for an iPhone, you have to spend even more money due to the App Store situation.

On my Android, I use a lot of open-source application that, I find, are often really the best app to do X or Y. They are also free, often without annoying advertisement, with the option to pay for a "premium" version (that usually add nothing but its to help the devs).

Because most OSS devs (with the exception of a few big project like VLC) don't have the money to pay for an iPhone and/or to publish their app on the App Store, there is almost no good open-source/free application on iPhone.

So not only do I have to pay a quite hefty price for a phone (which, to be fair, I find very good), but I also need to pay even more if I want to replicate the setup I have currently for free on an Android. Some application, don't even have good equivalent on iPhone.

I really hope one day Apple change their policy regarding OSS and open up iPhone programming like Google did with Android.
On the other hand, all you can control on an iPhone with the stock app is spot metering following the focus point.

The reason people dislike menus is that there's a lot of things to control. It's nice without it, right until you need to tweak something.
>>"if the judge says its okay, its okay."

Sure but a superior judge can overrule the previous judge.
Right now I'm lounging in a tent filled with pillows and blankets, in the basement, snuggling with my son as we watch cartoons (StoryBots is a masterpiece).

There are effects of this morning routine, which I cannot directly explain, that make my upcoming work day so easy and productive.
Not recently, thanks. I will surely try!

My main gripe with the julia interpreter was that it was ridiculously slow to startup (I was using it as a "calculator" from within a shell loop: each iteration spawned a julia to perform a simple matrix computation). Does this performance has improved recently?

By the way, what do you mean by "removing safety checks should be explicit" ? This sounds like a problem that the language should be able to deal with itself without bothering the programer (e.g. if the bounds of the loop are variables of known value, it can be checked beforehand, so the bounds checks can be safely omitted).
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Are you ignorant or choosing to ignore how much of the prison population is there due to criminalising the use of narcotics and much of the violent crimes committed is a result of this policy? Are you also ignorant or choosing to ignore that the policy has been used to target especially minorities who get sentenced much more often than whites despite drug use being at similar levels across races?

Calling all these people simply "criminals" is a bit too straightforward term when the system has been set up to mainly jail black men for crimes that have no clear victim. That's a serious issue for a country that claims to be all about liberty.
Excuse me, what? I think you should step out of whatever propaganda feed you are sucked in.

Literally all of the EU have a massively lower rate and in none of the countries it is remotely illegal to criticize the government.

In Germany for example, you have multiple programs on TV dedicated to make political satire of current politics. On basically tax funded TV.

And you won't have your name published for criticizing the white house [1] like in the country some people apparently unironically think of as the place with the most personal freedom.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/15/white_hous...
Yes, he's often described as an early Pop artist, but unlike the more famous Warhol & co., who used and embraced industrial processes, there's a definite "craftsy", home-made quality to Johns' work.

He used encaustic, which is a mixture of hot wax and oil paint, which lends the paintings a really unique texture. There's also often newsprint embedded in the paint, which adds another layer of texture.

Reproducing the American flag in this medium, and at scale, offers all sorts of questions. The red drips are maybe too symbolic, but the embedded newsprint gives a sense of history, and the whole handmade effect just adds to the ambiguity.

I once read some of his sketchbook notes, in which he'd written something along the lines of "try to hide what's going on from the viewer." So, he was being deliberately vague. And somehow it works, at least in his early works.
If you are in IT you are likely too smart to be a cop
> They justify it by reminding you that “you get to be part of the mission”.

That reminds me of the post from a few days ago on HN: "#### you: pay me!"

I think there comes a point in many (and I'd hope all, but I don't think it's true) peoples' careers where they realise that, in business, money talks and everything else is sadly just chatter.
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created an account after lurking here for 3(!) years now. happy for this to be my first post, as the HN community has definitely been an inspiration towards starting my own website/blog (and I have in turn convinced a few others)

https://www.vivekkalyan.com/

my website is built with gatsbyJS and hosted with netlify. i plan to blog regularly about NLP/deep learning topics and eventually add projects + photog but thats for another day.
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They used to have smart labels in the gmail labs config section, but dropped it. It appeared to be a Bayesian classifier. You couldn't add your own labels, but it did work well. No idea why they dropped it.

You could use popfile, it supports moving mail to named folders, which isn't the same as just applying a label, but works. http://getpopfile.org
Probably not. I elaborated more in another comment, but Schizophrenia is characterized by long-term structural changes to the brain. Clearing the gut bacteria is unlikely to reverse those changes.

But as a preventative measure it could be interesting. If this theory is correct, there could be people out there who never developed schizophrenia because they did a course of Cipro at the right time and nuked their dysfunctional gut biome. We would have no way of knowing.
Some byproducts of the plasmagrape production are toxic though (ozone). Make sure that the vicinity of the microwave is well ventilated.
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I think this is a good point against calling a computer professional device in 2019 - or was "business" meant from a pure quality/design /luxury perspective?

I know we aren't talking about servers but not-self-serviceable hardware with strict limits is what I usually associate with mid-range, not professional users, not even prosumers.

That laptop costs around 2000€ though. The price itself is enterprise-level indeed.
> Spending $90k instead of $184k in year 1 with the option to turn it off if you want (no longer need). This could be very valuable for a startup who wants elastic spending patterns.

I think they used the 3-year reserved instance pricing, meaning you can’t just turn it off after a year and stop the cash flow out (at least not at that price).
Can you please provide a download link for the pdf of these slides?
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same here. and my friends all tell me "it's a good thing, because you know everybody working here are passionate". He told me that while he was paying for his lunch at the Apple cafeteria because they don't even get free lunch. I was very surprised.
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Oodi is quite hideous from the outside: I haven't generally felt the appeal to walk towards the area. See for yourself: https://ibb.co/jkJ4h1B

But Oodi is also not so much of a library than an indoor public space. That is probably fine and that I think is where libraries are going in general. However, being born decades ago it's libraries I like.

I'll much rather find my "books and crannies" to spend some quality time a few blocks the other way in this old library: https://goo.gl/8sEdSS (more pictures on FourSquare: https://foursquare.com/v/rikhardinkadun-kirjasto/4baa99a3f96...). It's as cramped as homely, quiet, smells of old books, and offers a sense of a place unlike the new showroom of design.
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I'd suggest that "solved with a dock or a dongle" is just as awful a fix as "why not bring a usb keyboard with you".
They did that too.

>Apple said Tuesday it has returned $275 billion in total capital to shareholders since 2012. ... Apple said it would be increasing dividends 16 percent to 73 cents per share.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/apple-buybacks-q2-2018.html
So DEC missed out on IBM PC revolution, Microsoft DOS and now search engines!
> This isn’t the real world. It’s all just conjured up on a screen for profit and entertainment.

One of the reasons I love embedded SW development is this right here. I know that it's basically just in my head, but it's so much more satisfying for me to work on a medical device SW or a harvester control system than, I dunno, some random ToDo app.

One could call embedded dev the sweet spot between the real world (as you put it) and the abstract world of pure software.
Bandwurmwort (https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bandwurmwort)

"tapeworm word" in English.

Basically, they are compound words.
This blog post from last week has two videos of it in action. The first one demos some of the features, while the second reads a bit of a book uninterrupted for 2 minutes.

https://octobanana.com/blog/terminal-text-reader-demo
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