skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually had no problem reading that!

At first glance, it looks unsightly but when one actually starts reading it (all of it, not just looking for "clues"), how it looks makes little difference.

These threads that mention k are always entertaining. There is usually some amount of comments like yours.

There is this concept called "Tall Poppy Syndrome". I am not sure what we might call this stuff here (it should have name), but we see some of it every time k comes up in a thread on HN.

Fortunately we also see people commenting who like APL or at least are curious. Not everyone is trying to cut Arthur Whitney down for being good at what he does.
Ask HN: What are some of the best specialty websites?
By "specialty website" I mean websites maintained by one or few people that contain a wealth of expert and often opinionated information on a very specific topic. They often look like the CSS was done by a 4 year old.

Examples include:

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/ - the online bible for bike repairs

http://www.reveeveille.net/ - making instruments out of plants (french)

https://piano-ology.com/ - everything about learning piano

http://www.sticksite.com/ - all about diamond willow sticks
I'm in my early 20's, living in Central Europe. We made a lot of gunpowder when I was a kid, and we shot fireworks at each other when I was teen. Up until around 13 I was carrying a knife everywhere I went. Sometimes we played cops & robbers and were shooting each other with realistically looking airsoft guns right on the street, later we bought more powerful weapons. When I was around 14 I had a very good looking fake of AK 47, a cop once stopped me when I was carrying it openly on my back - to ask where I bought it so he could buy it for his son.

None of that is possible today I think, except for the knife, that is still okay where I live. Boy & Girl Scouts are wildly popular here for more than 100 years, that probably helps.
Relational databases (except maybe MemQL) treat the file system as the source of truth. And usually the file system is bigger then the memory so they need to constantly update their cache with more relevant data.

Redis loads everything to memory. And doesn't keep the structure in the file system, only the log, recreating it from log+snapshot.
Yes. I'm not sure I would say afraid but certainly cautious. I would avoid recommending GPL software to anyone I work with or for. The license is too complicated, the rules too strict (and seem to change with every license version), the FSF is too hardline. Simple, permissive licenses are easier and safer.
Mongo's debut was well timed to ride the JSON crazewave.
I doubt a cycle lane would be obeyed in India based on my experience. We even drove the wrong way on the express way to take a "short cut".
After reading the comments in this thread I feel there are two broad categories people seem to fall in. These categories are independent of whether they use it themselves or it is used on them. The first category is of people who think it is a tool to manipulate people into doing what they want. The second category is of people who think it is a tool for introspection and starting a meaningful conversation.

I think that in human communication intent matters much more than the tool or framework you use.
In case you are still interested in reading about the security aspect of logging, there is the OWASP Logging Cheat Sheet dedicated to this:

https://github.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/blob/master/cheats...
Book recommendation: 'The Future of Money' by the co-architect of the Euro - Bernard Lietaer
Male Birth Control Pill Makes Another Advance
MongoDb's overzealous marketing is like my sending out resumes extolling my skills with C/C++ embedded programming.

I guess it's actually lying now that I think of it. People might be justified in being a little bit peeved.
It's weird I tried to submit that list as it's own submission on hacker news and it seemed to be doing well but then suddenly I couldn't I couldn't see it under new.
$50M CTF from Hackerone – Writeup
I literally said "I'm not accusing parent of being related".

That is orthogonal to Confucius Institute agents being trained to use the same tactic that happened to be the most upvoted comment.

I didn't insinuate parent is astroturfing or an 'agent'. I just pointed out that parent is repeating the same mindset that China wants to be repeated, it is literally in Xi's strategy outline. I am sure parent wholeheartedly holds that view and is not a shill or anything of the sort.

But at least I see where the misunderstanding came from.
Another best practice: Please do not use logging as an excuse to avoid implementing proper error propagation in libraries or utility code.

Bad:

void something_failable(void *data) {
if (!is_valid(data)) {
log_err("invalid data");
}

/* ... */
}

Less bad:

int something_failable(xxx_t *ctx, void *data) {
if (!is_valid(data)) {
return xxx_err(ctx, "invalid data");
}

/* ... */
}
> Free plan ‐ 12000 queries per month

That's nice. Maybe a free plan without an API key would be nice to try without registration.

Also you might want to integrate it to geocoder ip lookup: https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder
You’re mostly correct in this case, but for more commoditized houses or complexes, that can generate income, the reasoning is as follows:

There’s always significant uncertainty in construction: timelines, permits, cost overruns, contractor vetting, etc. In addition, two years you spend building are two years of rents that you don’t collect. As a result, there’s usually a premium, sometimes a significant one, for having something already built.

The amount of the premium varies depending on how those factors interrelate in a given market, and of course speculative appetite in that market also comes into play.
I've considered this issue before. How much is 'enough'? It certainly depends on what your preference is (are you okay with second hand cars, or do you want to try a Lamborghini for size?), but $5M in the bank is 50 years at $100K a year (ignoring interest, etc). Towards the end of your life you probably don't need that much, but if you didn't want to have 'too much' and were disciplined enough to leave most of what you have in the bank and just give yourself an 'allowance', $5M would not be an unreasonable sum.
Off course it was, prototyping speed on mongodb was (and probably still is) always excellent.

Some features that don't scale are very nice to have when you don't have scaling issues. For example, if you add tags to your documents and you want to query on those tags (find all documents containing tag A and B), it's nice that's just a builtin.

I haven't found a single datastore that is as developer friendly that supports that use case, so for now, I'm sticking with mongodb for my pet project.

(if you know of a datastore that has support for this query out of the box, please let me know)
The falsehood that it is correct to treat ZIP codes as one would treat numbers is on the list.

* https://mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5791489)
> Does anyone actually know who is running outline.com?

The only hint I can get is their Terms of Service are governed by California law and the courts of Santa Clara County [1]. (It also refeeences “business transfers” in its privacy policy [2], implying it’s a for-profit entity.)

Otherwise—and this is unusual for any legitimate activity—I can find no reference to any legal person anywhere on their site.

[1] https://outline.com/terms.html

[2] https://outline.com/privacy.html
I, like about 50% of people living in Vantaa, commute to different city for work. I'm not sure how many of them actually use public transport for commute, but as overall public transport usage is around 50%. I don't think there's big difference between the usage between working within Vantaa or going to different city as that city is usually Helsinki or Espoo.

Commute wise they are all part of same region while legally they are different cities. I don't think that's extremely uncommon arrangement in some larger cities in Europe.
I advise you to vote with your feet as I have done. I suspect you’re a tech worker so it should be easy to find work across the globe.

I myself emigrated to Thailand and while Thailand isn’t perfect, for various reasons I feel more free here than in The Netherlands. Perhaps most of all since I pretty much can legally avoid paying much tax here and in my opinion taxes in The Netherlands are just too damn high.
Companies pay large licensing fees to use this software. There must be some "positive impact" on their business.
Postgresql JSONB?
How to go about a user story?
> Video unavailable
> The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

Could you clarify without a broken link?
Comments are paginated, so when a threshold is reached (200 comments maybe ?), only the most popular threads are kept at the top, and the rest has to be loaded manually.

You can see the same mechanism here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19490573
Why do you feel it's alluding to Notch? There are plenty of game developers who've struck it rich and the Dwarf Fortress authors' concerns about sudden wealth seem pretty specific to them.
Someone remind me: did the Internet survive the introduction of the DMCA?
Did you try taking the elevator 10 floors down and walking back up? Or just 5 floors down and returning at a light run?
I'm thinking about applying to HAI with a proposal for an AI that can generate paper proposals which would be accepted at HAI
Probably the next logical idea would be to apply to YC with Redis?
Google will obviously discard this new project once it will be starting to be working. Then it will start from the scratch again.
On a side note: I recently watched "The Founder", which tells the story how Ray Kroc scaled McDonalds. Highly recommended!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc
Earth's Magnetic North Pole Is Moving Faster Than Ever
The primary purpose of an ORM is to overcome the "impedance mismatch" between relational databases and programming language data structures. There's no need for an ORM if you can store your data structures directly in the database.
Mqttinfo is a command-line utility to retrieve information on an MQTT broker
At Apple's level, they're probably only concerned with these amounts like that famous government spending admonition - I understand it's just a billion dollars, but a billion here, a billion there, soon we'll start talking about real money.
How Does Cellulite Occur? What Is the Treatment? – With All Women
Thank you so much for writing this. As a software developer with some familiarity with ML concepts and terminology (I’d heard of word2vec for example) I found this post really easy to follow along with.
> But if I'm outside of the
> EU, I can just block that
> region.

This kind of behaviour is going to lead us to having two seperate internets.

> Not the biggest one anyway

True, but does it need to be the biggets to be valuable.

> not a single native English speaking country in there

Except there are native english speaking countries in there, and besides, europeans can very often (region dependent) read/write english anyway.

Also, do you just not want to support none english content? What about spanish speaking Americans?

I also think you'll lose many users in other eurasian countries that use an anonymising network and have exit nodes in the EU.
Euro MPs vote to end summer time clock changes
In the meantime, the tiny house movement is growing:

> https://thetinylife.com/what-is-the-tiny-house-movement/

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_house_movement

> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tiny+house+movement&t=ffab&atb=v15...
But we are in the f up territory. Does EU law says anything about meta tags? If not, then unless explicitly allowed you can't copy it.

On so many levels.
The decision to monetize DF came after a cancer scare, so it might be reasonable to assume 'enough' would be 'enough to ensure that both of us are comfortably able to handle such a medical emergency'
Well, the phrasing sure leans towards the intellectual side, however Calvin adopting the artistic attitude (and lingo) before even making a name for himself or adopting any skill whatsoever is not just funny but in a simple way encouraging. Even an 11-year-old might realize that one doesn't just bullshit one's way through life like that.

The joke somewhat even reminds me of Tarantino's "Desperado" joke, because said artistic attitude resembles the guy looking for gratitude in the barman on whose bar he's urinating...
Whenever I'm in this situation the first thing I tell them is send me an email describing what the idea is and what's the plan to execute.

Most times I never hear about it again, and thats the goal. If they can't be bothered to write a simple email about their idea, it's not worth anyone else's attention.
> need to justify the headcounts

Something similar happened in LinkedIn too I guess. Multiple teams building very similar tools that were on very related problems.
Wow. When was it written? OCB3 is almost 8 years old. Wonder why it wasn't used.
The Microsoft I want to see
Generalizing the topic, does anyone know if there is a map of subjects/branches in mathematics and books/blogs/etc giving examples of real-world applications?

Personally, I know the (existence of the) maths behind some applications (e.g. JPEG -> DCT) because I have learned it while at uni, but in general, if I encounter a mathematical subject I struggle to find examples of its application.
I'm just glad that Tarn is finally looking concerned about his own health, considering he has (according to interviews) been living like a hermit and subsisting on red bull and soft drinks...
$2/hour car rental? It costs five times as much to rent a scooter!
Indeed. I suspect somewhere out there, Douglas Adams must be smiling. :-) [1]

Interesting that Lewis Carroll also makes references to 42.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)#The_Hitchhiker's_G...
No, it doesn't. We have self-hosted mumble server, and guest set-up is quite easy. Enter couple parameters and you're good. But again, it's a techie podcast, so may be it is harder than click here and start talking Discord's approach.
mongodb has its advantages and disadvantages. just like other databases.
In my opinion this is one of the saddest and most dangerous trends of modern times, the desire to give up any and all freedoms in exchange for perceived safety. We've welcomed 1984 with open arms.
Show HN: I made a tiny app generator for myself, maybe you will find it useful
Hi,

Sometimes I want to wrap an existing website into an Android app quickly so I made a service that does just that

https://html2apk.com/

If you find it useful I'll be happy to hear about that, if you have any other comments/suggestions I'll be happy to hear about that too.

10x,

Gilad
To be fair. In some places at least there are regulation in place and non E2E-encrypted email is an insecure channel. The webbased inbox, mostly integrated in the respective e-banking platform is actually the most convenient and safe way to communicate with a bank. You (sadly) can't reasonably expect regular clients to know about and care to use PGP.
India Shot Down Live Satellite. Fourth Country to Do So
Here's the source if you want to tinker with it : https://github.com/ncase/loopy
+1 just for getting 'disclosure' right...
"Programming is not telling the machine what to do."

What is that called then?

I am interested in controlling hardware, whatever that is called.

I think Torvalds once said in a comment that is why he wrote his own kernel. He wanted better control of his hardware. Something like that.

"... telling the next programmer what the machine does."

You mean what the code does?

This sounds like drudgery. I can see why one might be overly sensitive about how source code looks before even attempting to read it.

I am just a hobbyist writing programs for myself. There is no "next programmer".
If I understand your query correctly, Google Cloud Firestore would support it.

https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/query-data/querie...
Rounding up Uyghurs doesn't require fancy big data at all. Everyone's ethnicity is already recorded on their national ID card, and by now that information can be expected to be digitized and easily searchable. To get a phone number, you need to register with your ID, so the government gets location tracking basically for free.

All of that is a completely different technical effort to the credit blacklist discussed here.
I think it's for the same reasons as why SUVs and crossovers have become popular. They have a rugged appearance that seems to signal an ability to go anywhere and a readiness for any situation and any terrain.

And just like SUVs and crossovers, most of them spend 99% of their time on asphalt.

I agree that we need more practical bikes and cargo bikes.
Reddit was served with a DMCA 512(h) subpoena. Subpoenas are normally issued by a court, but 512(h) creates a special process where anyone can subpoena a website to reveal the identity of a user they accuse of infringing their copyright, with no prior judicial review:

https://www.lutzker.com/the-dmca-subpoena-process-an-underut...

Complying with a subpoena is mandatory; failure to do so is contempt of court. But you don't have to comply immediately, and in the meantime you or someone else can file a motion to quash, which puts it on hold. In this case, darkspilver (represented by the EFF) filed the own motion to quash, rather than Reddit itself.
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Kubespray SSH:s in and does what you'd do manually, while Kops deploys a prebuilt image. That means Kubespray is pretty much cloud-agnostic, and much easier to customize, but it's also not really compatible with auto-scaling groups and the like.
Told U.S. security at risk, Chinese firm seeks to sell Grindr dating app
Small question, since the developer docs are not available on mobile devices:

When the flatfile.io homepage keeps referring to "XLS" docs, is it actually trying to say they will import modern Excel files ("XLSX") or does it literally mean you would have to ask users to re-save their spreadsheets into the ancient format?
Hu? The "evil" thing here are cars (emitting poisonous gases, driving climate change, making loud noises etc.) and their reckless drivers (racing those cars in inner cities, not paying attention, claiming losing control of their vehicle was an "accident"…). Anything that limits their use and the freedom of their self-centered users is good.
Rockland County, a county in New York State, not New York County, which is congruent with the borough of Manhattan [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_New_York
The problem I see there is that a serious issue party way through the process my man nothing gets logged. Also for a long running process you won't see the line until it is complete - this could even apply to what should be a short process when something is wrong.

A compromise might be to log each part individually as is more usual, but with IDs appended/prepended to each line to group them (which is useful anyway for analysis without this next step) and later process the raw log to produce one with the structured entries.
> I think the legal argument you’re trying to make died with the Aereo supreme court decision. The ”outline is a browser in a browser” statement is cute but it doesn’t pass the duck test.

About Aereo, could you elaborate more on that? I never heard of it, checking the Wikipedia article, I cannot find the word browser inside.

I'm seriously interested in that argument because years ago I was considering an idea to do exactly that. I mean look at Rubinius (Ruby in Ruby) or PyPy (Python in Python). Those are actually serious projects that are more than just research - as far as I know some thing can be even done faster that way and gave inspiration for the reference implementation.

Speaking about JS, React is basically re-implementation of the DOM in JS with an XML like language.

Nobody minds if Chrome and Firefox include Translations that transforms websites, that people use screen readers etc. I think there are limits of reason of what a content providers can restrict.
There are legal speed limits. Drivers routinely ignore them. EU plans a system that automatically _alerts_ drivers when when they are exceeding the speed limit (something that essentially all sat nav do).

How dare they be so evil? Jeez.
Ah, you're using it to mean "no virtualization". Got it, thanks.

I tend to use the term to mean single-tenant, user-supplied OS, non-virtualized myself but I see where you're coming from.
Non issue. This is just haptic feedback when you get to the limit. I hope it does log the speed as well as the last two accidents on the road I live on people were killed by idiots doing 40+ mph in a 20mph limit.

What is a problem is fixing this shit when it breaks. Which it will because it adds to the bottom line cost of the vehicle so will be done by the lowest bidder.
I don't get why this is evil. I often fear speeding cars, particularly on country roads. I understand people wanting an engine with spare power, but why not make people follow the law if it is fairly simple to do?
The other dark side is that half of the email you send from your fastmail account will still be going to Gmail and hence can still be used by Google to build a profile of you, if they so desire.
Article does not match title here (even slightly) - bad copy-paste?

Here's the correct link:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-26/southwest...
Someone has mentioned PostgreSQL jsonb, which basically works the same way as Mongo, although I won't argue the query syntax is easier to learn.

But also, PostgreSQL supports arrays, so you can have much more native tags as well, and it can be indexed and searched in a more traditional SQL fashion.

I have only used this with Django ORM, but I believe it's pretty straightforward if my memory is correct.
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IANAL but I feel this has sense. The patents focus generally on high level aspects. The chips are more and more versatile and integrates more and more features. As a result, a chip can be used in a way that does not violate patents but has the potential to be used in infringing ways. If you want to tax the chip maker, you have to take into account these potential uses. The development of versatile chips would be discouraged.
There is already a speed limit, this is just enforcement isn't it?

Do you agree with speed limits?
> I’m not saying it’s normal

Right. That's why I said it's weird that French people didn't have a problem with it, since most politicians get attacked for what they do in their personal life.

> but women having agency means a man can’t run a country all of a sudden? He’s somehow weak or compromised?

I never said that..? He's a Rothschild banker who married his high school teacher who's 25 years older than him. As he's not the typical Frenchman, it's weird to me that French people voted for him because "he's one of us".

I think I explained my opinion pretty clearly. You don't have to agree with it, though :-)
Well, what I'm saying is that I'm not certain that the social credit system is actually an effort to surveil and stratify all people in China. My understanding is that, in its current form, it only targets irresponsible business owners.

The Uighur roundup - that just sounds like standard colonialist violence to me. I don't see how it's specifically a 'big data' issue, nor how it's related to social credit.
PayPal vs. Stripe for small businesses in 2019
UK MEP:

"It is true that cars built in Britain will have to carry these safety systems and standards if they are to be exported to the EU," Mr Dalton said. "But we have also secured improved rules"

Its almost like having a seat at the table, for your biggest export market is a good thing.
Similar things are discussed in this year's World Happiness Report – http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/the-sad-state-of-happin....

Specially figure 5.4 makes it pretty clear: more internet hours = less happiness.