skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This relies on several things:

* Enabling Chrome Sync, which is opt-in

* Syncing history, which is on by default if you enable sync

* Not using a custom passphrase for sync data (not using one is the default)

* Having "My Activity" save "Web & App activity", which is opt-out

* Having synced Chrome history data sent to "Web & App activity", which is opt-out

For the last two bullets, the opt-outs are at https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols .
I use this regularly, and still find it frustrating. It gets old fast to just keep trying a search in DDG only to find it not working and do it all over again with !g
So yesterday Google had a major (and out of character) outage across its apps, and today Facebook has a major (and also out of character) outage across its apps.

I can't wait to see the RCA for both of these and if they're related.
"UPS Airlines Flight 1354 was a scheduled cargo flight from Louisville, Kentucky, to Birmingham, Alabama"

U.S. Airline
U.S. origin
U.S. destination
European aircraft (A320)

Seems that the cause was problems with American trained pilots, so it's a strong refutation to the assertion "Maybe from the fact that the last fatality in a US airline crash was over ten years ago? "
There's a great tutorial.

http://drawabox.com/

They also have a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtFundamentals/
> Postponement doesn't solve any problems.

It does solve one problem: that otherwise we crash out with no deal by default.

> And not leaving after all won't happen either, British pride and dreams of Empire can't handle that humiliation.

That's not the only force in Britain though. Plenty of people, especially young people, see themselves as European as much as British. And plenty of people are ashamed of the empire too.

> My money is on the no deal exit, even though that implies the hard border to Ireland.

It could happen, but I don't think anybody is keen to see a resurgence in Irish terrorism, which is not unlikely in a No Deal scenario. And this is even ignoring the significant downsides this would have for the British economy.
Quite a few on many different sides -- Venezuela is a de-facto narcostate at this point, and they're in deep with everyone from the Mexican cartels to Islamist terror groups in North Africa. The military is getting rich off drug money while the people starve, and a starving populace can't revolt. Unless the US intervenes, there is a lot more money on the side that wants to keep Maduro in power. You're not wrong about the mercenaries, thus the side with the most money is the most likely to win.
Ok, thanks for that. I just noticed that it stopped working for me as well. The server was complaining about having too many open files. I've just restarted it so hopefully it will work for you this time! I also fixed a possible cause for the TypeError. Cheers
Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhD economists
GM's Cruise unit to double headcount
It was on Netflix. I can't remember the name, maybe "Dope" or something with the word "Drugs" in the title. It was interesting because they showed perspectives from both sides. They interviewed drug dealers on one side, and also interviewed police officers on the other side too.
Can you even have unicode/non-ascii in email addresses?

If you can, and your email address is josé@gmail.com, but whether it arrives to you depends on whether the address was entered as unicode codepoint 'LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE' or 'LATIN SMALL LETTER E'+'COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT'... you're going to have a lot of trouble getting email. Becauase people entering your address have no idea which they are entering. I know I can type an "é" on MacOS US keyboard layout by typing `option-e,e`, but I have _no idea_ what actual bytes (corresponding to which of these codepoints) are sent to HN when I enter that in an HN comment text box. And most people sending email, of course, don't even know any of this is a thing.

If it works at all, it's actually gonna be because the software on either or both ends (sending and receiving) is already doing NFC normalization!

So, yes, this illustrates that normalization _is a thing_ you have to pay attention to, and can get weird.

But in general, for "text" input (rather than addresses or filepaths), normalizing to NFC is _usually_ a good call. If it's addresses or filepaths or what have you... it's gonna get confusing no matter what.

If you know what you're doing, maybe NFC isn't right. If you don't know what you're doing, NFC is a lot better start-out-with call than not normalizing at all. Not normalizing at all will bite you more often than NFC will.
embrace enhance extinguish
>In other words, the study is being used _by one of the authors_ to deny people state benefits meant to help people with chronic conditions.

No, that is simply not true. You need to be careful who you listen to. Coyne has a history of nasty abuse against people who disagree with him [1], and there is no evidence whatsoever for that particular statement that you quoted (I just looked for it). PACE was funded by DWP, but it is a huge leap to say that they wanted to deny benefits. They are clearly interested in effective treatment, and if you listen to the recent debate of ME in parliament the DWP specifically have a policy of giving benefits for ME.

[1] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-trade-insults-...
I read the book about six months ago and I didn't really enjoy the experience. However, in retrospect, I feel glad to have read it. I didn't draw the same conclusions as the author of this article but it was nice to read her opinion nonetheless.
The problem I have with this relabelling is that decent health care is largely dependent upon how rich/nice your employer is and it costs lots of money at the point of contact. Healthcare in the U.S. is not provided to citizens in a way that resembles a government program.
After looking at a ton of youtube videos, taking art classes, and even an in-person atelier (drawing in a studio while being guided by a "master"), by far the best art teaching I've come across is Evolve Artist[0]. It focuses on taking small steps to get the fundamentals down solid. I expect it'll take me a few years to get through the whole course, but I can already tell my ability to draw from life and handle brushes and paint has improved dramatically. There's a lot of personal feedback based on what you do, and I've found that to be a really effective way to improve with art.

I'll put my pom-poms down now. I'm not affiliated with Evolve other than being a student. And my goal after 20 years of web dev work is to be a professional writer/illustrator, so I'm taking this art thing pretty seriously.

[0]https://evolveartist.com/
Not every ios user has a desktop
It's a little bit in the middle.

Clients download a database of partial hashes of malware URLs. If they get a hit on one of those partial hashes, they make a request for the full list of hashes with that prefix.

Google knows when a client makes one of those requests, but the exact URLs (or hashes) they're looking up are never revealed. The partial hash is 32 bits long, so there's enough collisions that making a request isn't especially revealing.

https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/update-api
1.- start with Black and White drawings.

A pack of 10 Grayscale Pastels or Conté pencils are cheap.

2.- Trace and copy

3.- innovate

4.- Then go with Acrylics: it dries fast, works with water, and it's cheap.

brushes: Get about five different ones, don't invest a lot of money in them.

5.- Learn color mixing

6.- Trace and copy

7.- Innovate
The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed are my two favorite works of hers, and I've read both a few times over the years.

But that's not what I used to say. I used to say that The Dispossessed was my favorite, and that the Left Hand of Darkness is overrated.

My opinion has flipped over the years. I now give Left Hand the edge, and I think that it's because the books are about such different topics.

The Dispossessed is all about matters I was concerned with when I was a younger man: the relationship of one's work with the world, and the ethics of the larger systems we operate in. It's a lot like other sci-fi books: a treatment of an idea, where the characterization (although strong for the genre) is secondary.

But The Left Hand of Darkness is, at its heart, about the relationship between Genly Ai and Estraven. The core sequence of the novel, the trek across the ice sheet, is beautiful and memorable as a depiction of a setting, but also as an exploration of human intimacy, with the device of Gethenian sexuality used as a kind of scalpel to shed light on how male and female shades our relations.

I used to think that the big ideas were what mattered. But the older I get, the more I appreciate that the big ideas are just extensions of what happens between individuals. The Dispossessed uses this technique as well, of course, but the intimacy of Left Hand just hits harder for me these days.
Can you give some specific examples of search queries in which Google had better results?
The increasing atomization of society has been discussed since at least The Lonely Crowd (1950).
Canada grounds all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes
> Let's not be naive that any major political party can be ethical

No, real differences in ethical conduct (both in overall level, insofar as that is meaningful, and more importantly in particular details) do exist between administrations, even within the same party.

> there were still scandals during his administration.

A scandal can exist without an actual ethical lapse, and in any case, not all scandals, even among those involving actual ethical lapses (much less, all sets of such scandals) are equal.
The busy-ness of business and our general obligation to "earn our keep" have squandered more human potential than every other stupid thing we've ever done, combined.

How many Einsteins never left the patent office? What other contributions were never made, because dude who could have made them decided food and shelter were more important than aspiration? That is a societal loss, and we only have ourselves to blame for it.
Open Source Library to Perform Entity Embeddings Using Neural Networks
Hey guys, I've been working as an undergrad researcher for the past year on the prediction of childbirth mortality. At this project I've developed a tool to perform entity embeddings on categorical variables using CNN with Keras. I tried pretty much to make it easy to use and flexible to most of the existent scenarios (regression, binary and multiclass classification), but if you find any other need or issue to be fixed, feel free to ask! :-)

I tried to add some cool stuff on the project, such as unit tests, code coverage with Codacy, continuous integration with Travis CI and auto deployment to PyPi and auto-generated documentation with Sphinx and ReadTheDocs, so if any of you is interested in how to setup your project to have these features, feel free to use it as a base project.

I'm also looking forward to any reviews about the source code, so any tip to improve the readability or even performance, its really welcome and well appreciated.

Github: https://github.com/bresan/entity_embeddings_categorical

PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/entity-embeddings-categorical/

Code coverage (nowadays reaching 97%): https://coveralls.io/github/bresan/entity_embeddings_categorical?branch=master

Thanks!
Kafka Connect Deep Dive – Error Handling and Dead Letter Queues
I've never been able to get into DF but I would suggest people check out RimWorld. I've heard it described as "Dwarf Fortress is Rimworld for people who hate fun" [0] and people often draw parallels between the two [1].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/7dm7j8/how_does_r...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/6xeie3/coming_ove...
There is a 24/7 Bob Ross channel on Twitch, too.
Not encountering this for the first time, I've given much thought to your position over the years. But according to many mathematicians, mathematics is within the purview of natural language[1][2]. And wasn't it Feynman himself alleged to have said if we can't explain something in a lecture intended for undergraduate freshmen, we don't really understand it? [3, p19].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_of_mathematics

[2] http://www.cut-the-knot.org/language/MathIsLanguage.shtml

[3] http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/563/2/Goodstein.pdf

EDIT: This is not to challenge your specific assertions on this topic - on which I cannot speak with any particular authority.
How to build an image type convertor in 6 lines of Py code
Call me a partisan hack but the fact of the matter is this situation is murkier politically than a lot of other similar controversies. There is a direct conflict of interest between our president and the CEO of a major American multi-national country and due to an amazing lack of transparency we have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.

President's divest from their holdings upon taking the office for a very specific reason, the fact that Boeing's CEO is a customer of one of the president's properties really should be scrutinized heavily. If these crashes happened on our soil there would be no doubt in my mind that this plane would be grounded.
Older versions were Bloom filters, but newer versions have moved away from that (and to a list of hash prefixes) because Bloom filters are hard to update.
And its frustrating because a company like Spotify surely isn't asking Apple ahead of time if they can build a watch app.
No! Contrary to what the sibling comment says, there are plenty of one-way hash functions that are resistant to quantum computers. Two comments though:

1. This particular work is explicitly relying on the fact that many quantum operations (including the type of time evolution they are considering) are a one-to-one map (not the one-to-many "irreversible" hash functions). Hence this work is explicitly not applicable.

2. Quantum computers do break some form of public key encryption, but this is a solved problem, as there are many other public key encryption protocols that are can not be broken by a quantum computer. Quantum computers do provide modest speedup in all types of brute force searches, like breaking symmetric encryption, but this is trivial to defend against by using a slightly bigger encryption key.
Yes. As you have pointed out, the ISP can only log a host name [0]. Well, if the user story is porn, then as it happens, host names are pretty darn telling. Also, looking at a list of host names in chronological order might help them to classify me as "closet this" or "closet that", as I find myself less and less inhibited by society's rules the closer I come to crescendo.

https://www.upturn.org/reports/2016/what-isps-can-see/

EDIT: spelling
I misspoke. The cuts have been mostly but not exclusively for the very rich. For instance, Reagan thought the tax on capital ought to be higher than the tax on labor. Now if a politician suggested this they'd be labeled a socialist by the Republican party.
Yeah, that's kind of weird. I think they said that to reinforce that this will be the exact same game. Thats great, but not providing the port team the source just sounds like they are trying both arms behind their back.
Yes but in those cases the role of race is not causal but correlative. It just happens that because more people classified as part of one race have evolved in an environment that has led to medically significant genetic differences from other humans, that those genetic differences correlate with 'race'. But race has nothing to do with it whatsoever. We only use race to speak about statistical medical populations because we lack more precise data about biological populations. This itself is an artefact of racism, i.e. the fact that we classify people according to their melanin, and make this into an important part of society, including census and medical data. Hopefully one of the upshots of the genomic revolution will be to create standardised genetic tests that do away with the need for such crude proxies.
That's an Easter Egg :) Just add .rss to any URL, except the main one of course.

E.g. https://news.nukleosome.com/latest.rss
Shopping list:

- small brush, medium brush

- cheap easel

- value pack of small (8"x10" or so) canvases

- one of those "cheap" acrylic paint sets that includes white, black, red, yellow, and blue paint.

1. After buying your supplies, find images of paintings that you like.

2. Copy them.

3. Repeat the first two steps for awhile.

4. Set up a bunch of inanimate objects, and paint those from life.

5. Repeat step four for awhile.

Also, DO NOT COMPARE YOUR WORK TO OTHERS'. Compare your work to your own previous work. You will only be perpetually angry or disappointed in your own work otherwise.

Source: I'm an artist.
How? If people have changed their minds due to how the Brexit negotiations have proceeded, then it is democratic to seek and respect that new opinion? If they haven't, then they can make that clear too.

It would only be undemocratic if there was coercion to vote a certain way in the second referendum. But I don't see that happening.
Looks neat.

If it’s going to be like HN, then it needs the front page to have posts voted beyond a threshold. Right now it shows the latest, which is like going to the “new” section on HN and seeing all the submissions pouring in and waiting to appear on the front page. Maybe the front page showing top posts with recency could help. Health is another area where there’s a lot of clickbait articles and spam. So controlling the quality of posts on the front page is very important.
Saves space, is just what people expect, easier to work fast and loose with when you want to do that.
> The security implications of RWX memory are just so bad

Such as? Any practical examples here?

Code executions is code execution. RWX just lets you execute faster code, it doesn't give you any privileges or permissions you didn't otherwise already have.
Yep!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
> but I guess the messaging around CC (which tends to emphasize reuse by artists) makes it difficult.

Programming is often considered an artform. It's just that these particular artists are palpatine's personal carbonite sculptors. Still artists.
I've been using TypeScript type checking in JS recently, and I went back to python and was wanting type checking. It was a weird feeling.

Would there be a way to build this into a plugin for Atom or VS code?
Exactly... "Open Culture" sounds like "Open Society (Foundation)" - People seem to weak to globalist propaganda.
> As the algorithms get more advanced — meaning they are better able to identify women and people of color, a task they have historically struggled with — legal experts and civil rights advocates are sounding the alarm on researchers’ use of photos of ordinary people.

This is written as if algorithms were sentient beings overcoming the next level of obstacles, rather than just being written by mostly white men who train them on photos of people who mostly look like themselves.
Yeah, but trust us this time.

(/s)
Nah. If you had sincerely posted something critical of climate change (on a more relevant article) that wasn't nonsensical at first sight, and were downvoted without being responded to, then sure. Call HN an echo chamber.

But you were just being a contrarian troll.
> Kindle for iPhone

You put a walled garden... in another walled garden.

On a more serious note: I get it; among Apple users are the most happily paying people that you can find on this planet and if you have a product you want to make it available to them.
No wonder they think it their right to take a massive 30% cut.
Why? Sadly, Serbs (and other nationalities from the Balkans, but Serbs are a majority,) have a lot of trained and experienced "operatives".

Rember Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo and the '99 bombing? That's a lot of experience gathered in ways more useful than a regular soldier would have. Those wars were full of improvisation, asymetric warfare, lack of logistics and what not. Count in members of paramilitary and covert government agencies, people leaving the country to make a living from crime during the '90s, and a mentality that you don't have too much to lose, and you've got a nice pool of people you can hire for some funky business. Besides, those Serbs are in general good with English, look westerly (Caucasian, not raising suspicion), not overly hindered by religion, cheap...

Don't get me wrong, I'm a Serb, but this isn't anything new.
You cunts need to stop saying that physical symptoms can not be caused by mental illness.

It's fucking stupid and it makes you look fucking stupid.
But you're an honest, decent citizen with nothing to hide, right? Why would you want to opt out?

And anyway, it's “to improve your experience”, so you can't opt out. It's for your own good. Remember, Big Brother loves you.
I don't either, I was just throwing that out as a mental exercise. Who would benefit from devaluing Tesla and why?
Is running normalization algorithms against UCS-2 -- i.e., where it's possible to have invalid surrogate pairs -- well-defined?
Expect that as we speak, the actual biological cause are being discovered.

Just like it turns out 50%+ of fibromyalgia patients have actual neuropathies, that can unfortunately diagnosed by biopsy only, which is expensive - and it's oh so much cheaper and efficient to write off as a psychosomatic disease instead.
Show HN: WayScript – Form Submission to Google Sheet in 4 Minutes
One possibility is that Musk recognizes Tesla is headed for disaster and wouldn't mind having his forced removal by a government regulator to blame for the outcome.
Interesting tidbit: "FairPlay" was the name of apple's proprietary iTunes DRM technology that was eventually mostly phased out due to the aftermath of Steve Jobs' open letter [1]. I wonder if the naming parallel is intentional?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay#Steve_Jobs'_%22Though...
Also in the article but buried:

4) Steam/itch.io and Katfox take a cut so if you want to really help out Zach and Tarn you should donate directly @ http://www.bay12games.com/support.html
You're correct that manual configuration of the suggest_url is unavailable ( http://crbug.com/8395 ), but incorrect that the prediction service sends data to Google in the case where that's not configured. In that case, the prediction service is inactive. If you add a manual engine and change your DSE to it, then effectively "use a prediction service" has little effect. (It will only kick in if you do keyword-triggered searches, a.k.a. tab-to-search, on engines that do have a configured suggest_url.)

I agree it would be nice to let people configure this (see comment 12 on that bug), but we're pretty careful about getting privacy right (despite wide-ranging internet claims to the contrary) and "falling back" to Google in that case would be a pretty major gaffe.
Another reply and another HN user with a history of negative Musk/Tesla comments. What are the odds?
Incidentally, Meph has also made one of the most fantastic game enhancing DF mods out there, Masterwork Dwarf Fortress.[1]

I'm really glad to hear he is involved with this.

[1] http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=98196.0
Nobody's perfect, but BurntSushi isn't someone who typically does things by half measures.
How I Made A Chicken Play Tic-Tac-Toe (2017)
The most eye-opening thing for me was learning how to carve a pumpkin (photorealistic human faces), how light and dark create dimension and shape.

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joystuff/macolanternsho...
Besides being a fun way to paint, this is also a relaxing, almost meditative exercise.
I think Google is bad at taking this advice because their original big success was a cool technology that they built a product / user experience around (their search tech).
Article author seems to be suggesting that Gmail et al. manage the key signing though, so still the same as https in that regard.