skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python added 'type hints' as of 3.5 BTW
https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

Julia has a web framework called Genie (https://github.com/essenciary/Genie.jl) which seems decent enough (probably useful for data visualizations but I don't know of many people using it (I haven't used it for anything worth mentioning)

One of the neatest things I found when I was messing around with Julia was UnicodePlots, which lets you make nice plots right in the terminal. I love that little library and used it to build a little live orderbook of GDAX right in the terminal. I wish there were more terminal-based applications for non-sysadmin/engineering tasks, I feel like its such a useful medium.
this is why it’s a good idea to delete your old logs
"leaked" in the sense that they're somewhere they shouldn't be. I could have chosen a better word. if I were to store database passwords on a file share the entire company had access to we would consider that a "leak" even though they weren't exposed externally.
Nagware is irritating and simply not scalable.

At least with web browsers they are user-facing and you only have a few of them to deal with.

I never choose parallel intentionally, but I still encounter the nagware messages in the output of scripts that other people wrote. And disabling the nagware message on my laptop doesn't disable it in a container, in the cloud, etc.. It's very annoying.

Wasting 15 seconds of human time certainly isn't scalable over dozens or hundreds of utilities. And applying the Steve Jobs computation[1], 15 seconds * 1 million users = nearly six months of wasted human lifetime.

Fortunately Debian-unstable seems to have fixed the issue by removing the nag message (which violates the DFSG). With luck this will propagate into mainline and into all of the downstream distributions like Ubuntu.

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt
What is IFTTT? Never heard of it.
Is it your understanding that non-Western cultures would be more or less okay with graffiti? Seems like everyone else is if anything less absolutist about private property rights.

I'm sorry you think that what I did to your stuff trashed it, but I think I enhanced it/everyone else thinks I enhanced/I didn't think you cared? It's on your outside wall, everyone else in the world has to stare at it/pass by it too, whereas from inside you can't even see it.

Sure, strictly speaking, legally no one has any right to do anything to it but you. But like, if you're asking why societally, culturally, it's socially acceptable to do stuff to that wall, I don't understand why that's hard to understand? No harm no foul; like, if I set fire to your building, no one thinks that's harmless or acceptable. But if I paint something on your ugly outside wall, why would anyone be up in arms about that on your behalf?
My best best advices are not listed there

- Stop using Google CDNs

- Stop using Google fonts

- Don't put Google Analytics in the header (or don't use it) otherwise will block/delay the browser load the website.

Most of the websites just timeout because of those 3 things and make the website imposible to navigate.

If you host your website in a normal VPS, without using Google services you will have a quite nice chance that the website loads pretty fast there in China.

edit: formatting
If This Then That: https://ifttt.com. It's a popular personal automation service.
Everyone does, we know.
Something was wrong with your setup. I've built clang in the past on a VM with only 3GB physical + 3GB of virtual RAM/swap allocated.
Ive lived in mainland China most of last 12 years and work in software. The last paragraph is key one for most websites. You have to remove use of all G, FB and related site scripts because these will not run. There are good alternatives anyway so do yourself a favor and replace them with self-hosted or other 3rd party alternatives.

There are sites for testing what is blocked in China - you should test all 3rd party scripts you are using to make sure they run ok.
I think it would be nice to have the other wheel selections available kind of like navigation tabs that show what state you are in with the same left right controls present. I don't think it would make the UI busier but it would look a little funky on mobile where I think the current set up might be a bit more advantageous.

All in all, this is really cool! I've used a few color pickers with color brewer (http://colorbrewer2.org/) being the most advanced. This seems to be right in the middle of simple and advanced color selections which is pretty sweet.
Yeah, traditional sources suck, in America; universities should be way more tightly controlled, in a decent society taking 56% of grant money should put some people in jail.

In the year 2019 working for the US military should feel embarrassing, after the Iraq fiasco, support to journalist-killer Saudi crown prince; support to genociders that use child soldiers such as Idriss Déby (Chad), plus many other mistakes makes it reasonable to feel ashamed of working for the US military complex.
Another recent article is about Benjamin in Ibiza in the 30s:

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/20/walter-benjam...
Same. It's certainly not objectively "amazing" (to use the author's own verbiage)
My watch is the second most expensive thing I own, and my car is depreciating rapidly.

I don't have any intention of selling my speedmaster though. Maybe if it suddenly shot up to insane prices (it's a limited edition), but I like the watch.
Solar and wind are reliable and economic in many parts of the world, but much less so in many parts of the world that already have very high population density. “Move everyone to a different part of the world” is an even less tractable approach than “figure out how to handle nuclear’s downsides”.

On top of that, while reliable and cheap renewables are “nearish future”, fusion tech is potentially not much less “nearish”, and would enable people to go back to living in Northern Europe, America, Asia, etc.

Note: I’m not trying to espouse or argue for a particular approach here; I’d trying to suggest some reasons why there might be so much (and such long-lived) “fawning over [nuclear] technology”. This is just some mildly educated guessing on my part.
Assuming this comment is in good faith - I have so far only seen Tesla make that claim. And they are also the only ones trying to do self driving without LIDAR.

Disclaimer: If I was a betting man, I'd short the hell out of TSLA.
It's not a matter of how much I believe. I went back to the 50's & interstate highway precisely because there could be no debating that it was a time where infrastructure was prioritized. And yet, even then, there was no major build out of rail. Because the geographic realities and subsequent economics don't work for it. The interstates made more sense and in terms of freight capacity still allowed for coast-to-coast service by trucks, which have dominated the continental freight since (a slight resurgence in freight rail boosted things in the 80's which was a good thing)

I have further evidence on my interpretation of geographical circumstances greatly influencing this issue: Canada.

Canada has roughly similar ridership as the US. US has about 1.7 rides per person, Canada has about 2.1. Might seem a fair bit higher, but compare it to a country like the UK, which has 26 rides per person, and that's not even counting the London Tube. Why?

Because the US and Canada face very similar geographical circumstances.

Maybe my interpretation weighs geography slightly too much, but if so, yours seems to weigh it not at all. That simply isn't supported by either the data available or the historic evolution of rail travel in the US.

I really don't see what's so difficult to understand. For the most part it's a point to point network, and every link, due to the points being further apart, costs significantly more to build. The exceptions, like on the east coast where points are closer, actually do have better rail. Not great, but more comprehensive than the middle 90% of the country where geography is as I have described.
I used it several years back to design some simple industrial boards. Good to see the project is kicking along well!
Streak (YC S11) Is Hiring an Android Lead Engineer in Vancouver
This just blew my mind a bit. It made me think of how corporations are like giant organisms, and their ads are like mating calls that drive their thriving and reproduction.
Aside from the history and opinion in the piece, there are technical errors that are addressed by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM

Anyone interested in the argument over digital audio vs. analog will enjoy the above.
that assumes the bomber isn't intending to maximize collateral damage
A Startup, Pt. 1: Inception-Launch
> in one color

Why is "black" and not "white" the standard color?

Asking this because I think that black electric cars need in general more air-conditioning, therefore more energy, have therefore less range than white cars - based on the belief that it's easier to heat a car than to cool it => if the previous statements are correct, why is the high-energy-consumption-colour less expensive than the low-energy-consumption-colour?
You say he is joking, but that person does know. I work at a research lab and at our yearly reviews, we have to day how our work directly contributes to a war fighting capacity. If that person thinks they do not contribute they are very seriously naïve or they are filling themselves.

Military labs do not try to make euphemisms for what they do, they want to make sure they directly contribute to a war fighting capability.
It is. And that is not a bad thing.

Most of us read HN to inform ourselves, learn new stuff but also because of entertainment.

We do have a very simple mechanism to vote/downvote what we decide to consume as ways to flag/hide content. I highly recommend you to use those tools.
I posted this elsewhere, but you will probably enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM
I am from the same boat and tottaly agree with you. Many people dont understand how real Russian threat is.
I don’t think that will get you a competition livestream. Most competitions this week haven’t started yet (they’re usually ~Fri-Sun). The game changes every year, but here’s a sample match from last year: https://youtu.be/jYjztOCT79M

You might also be able to find something at a week 4 event today or tomorrow here: https://www.thebluealliance.com/#events

The FIRST Robotics Competition is really cool (it turned 30 yesterday!), and if you like the look of it you should consider checking out or even mentoring a nearby team. They exist in many US high schools, and in some other countries as well.
My 4yo and I have been using "stop" to mean "use your judgment" and "stop for real" to mean exactly what it sounds like. It's been fascinating to watch her internalize that, start leading with the correct one, or sometimes have a late lazy "for real" as she susses out what she's up for.
> If you don't think artists should be paid, then neither should programmers.

Pretty sure that RMS is advocating for that kind of vision.
Offtopic, but HN has always been a reliable check for me as to whether or not I have data service or it's just extremely slow as it always loads.
Well neural computations happen at the level of individual neurons up through complex multi-neuronal circuits, cognition and behavior are the result of neural computation, therefore if cognition is abnormal then computations at the level of neurons up to circuits must be deranged. Nothing fancy.
Seconding unison. It's kind of a forgotten tool but it's remarkably robust and good at what it does. (I have to think being written in OCaml has been part of why it doesn't have more of a community around it.)
No tips - except at a guess 10 or 20% can't and won't ever see them.

I spent ages trying to make these things work in the 80s or 90s whenever the posters were the craze. Never got close, and there were quite a few others they simply didn't work on.
Anecdata and not fully fully researched as I have no plans to sell my watch, but very shortly after I bought mine, the manufacturer raised their base prices, to the extent where it appears, even although I don’t have the most desirable model, to have covered the deprication I face from wearing the watch daily. At best it’s held it’s value, at worst it’s not ‘lost’ much either.
AFAIK, what you do with your own data via IFTTT is entirely up to you. Is there any evidence or indication IFTTT is misusing, or could miuse it? Of course it asks for a lot of permissions -- the idea is that you can use it to replace APIs for everything.
This would mimic the strategy they've always taken, of building now products to serve themselves, and then turning them into a platform for others.
This is definitely one of the greatest responses I’ve seen here in the last 5 years. Thank you!
First of all there's no "evidence" of anything, it's a claim Birkenstock is making. And the actual claim (by the CEO of Birkenstock) had nothing to do with counterfeiters, it was that Amazon was attempting to attract legitimate retailers that sell Birkenstocks to sell them on Amazon.

Then the Birkenstock CEO threatened to sue Amazon for doing so, saying that Amazon was knowingly violating their policy, despite the fact that you can't win lawsuit for a company that you have no legal agreement with, so that threat is empty BS.
Denver to Chicago would be perfect for high speed rail. An express high speed train could beat air travel door to door.
'Mindblowing' haul of fossils over 500m years old unearthed in China
Also, a lot of bias and same rhetoric being repeated.
An other blogger with 45 mln followers, Ministry of Education and a mainstream Party-owned newspaper are all involved in debate too.
To add to the other comments, from the very beginning they had a tux on the kickstarter page.

The Oculus 0.2 and 0.3 SDKs didn't really support Linux at first but as the source code was released, jherico fixed it up and linux support got integrated.

The website for the DK2 https://web.archive.org/web/20140919195305/https://www.oculu... clearly said

> The Oculus Rift and the Oculus SDK currently support Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Most of their 0.4 SDK source was still available but they had already started with putting their optical tracking into a closed source binary, which took them quite a while to release for linux, but eventually they did.

Then a few months before the CV1 release there was this blog post https://www.oculus.com/blog/powering-the-rift/

> Our development for OS X and Linux has been paused in order to focus on delivering a high quality consumer-level VR experience at launch across hardware, software, and content on Windows. We want to get back to development for OS X and Linux but we don’t have a timeline.
Pretty sure the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was not done as a volunteer graffiti job either.
Coding back in that day had a different meaning. Today it means any kind of coding--then it meant generating the assembler language.
US Airstrikes Killing Civilians in Somalia
You have to pass a background check to get a PAL. There's no background check at the time of sale for non restricted guns. "Runs background checks daily" is kind of correct. Your PAL is revoked if you commit a crime that would disqualify you from getting a PAL.

This is distinct from restricted firearms (mostly handguns) where a new background check is performed each time you buy a restricted firearms.

In California, all firearms save for some really old ones are treated like restricted rifles in Canada. You have to get a background check and wait 10 days for every purchase even if you already own a dozen guns. Plus there are a bunch of rules about the shape of the grip, whether it has a for grip, the shape of the muzzle brake, and whether or not the stock folds that can make guns felonies to possess.

All guns (save for the aforementioned muzzle loader) are registered in California. Well, technically not registered because to do so is a violation of Federal law. But the State does log every firearm brought into the state, every firearm bought, and every firearm transferred. So basically a registry in everything but name.
That and remastered(or so I thought... I think they're in 4:3 aspect) episodes being available on Netflix makes it really hard to justify paying at all for discs.
The level of control depends on the term sheet. As far as I understand, there is always a degree of control/preference, even when VC's share is minor. I haven't heard of term sheets that would give total carte blanche to the founder.
I think you're underestimating how incredibly dominant can Amazon be. Amazon is not Reddit/Twitter/Snap. They literally can do bulldozer moves into industries. Their ad placements are also very valuable. They already have the purchase intent that lacks in any of the examples you mentioned.
Context:

In ~July 2018 there was some outcry because Google was "letting third parties read your emails" (e.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-reportedly-allows-third-...). Of course, these were all explicitly installed by users who gave these apps access. But somehow people were mad anyway - maybe users shouldn't be given the option to make choices they don't understand?

Anyway, as the message mentions, Google announced new requirements for these apps on October 8: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/elevating-use...

Apparently, IFTTT (which does personal automation, integrating with many third parties), does not comply with the new policy.
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Stories about wooden water lines come up pretty regularly. In every instance I've read about, they're not in use; they're just still buried, alongside the iron pipes that replaced them long, long ago. That makes sense to me; they would probably lay new iron pipes along the same route, burying them as they went, and only disconnect the wood pipes after the iron pipes were in place. No sense removing the wood as they went.
I don't know for sure but it seems to be mostly music copyright companies pushing for articles 11 and 13. There reasoning seems a bit unclear but then again music licensing are some bizarre aspects to it. But I think it's important to understand the who and why behind articles 11 & 13 in order to understand what the proposed issue is. It's not unlikely that the media and copyright industry would try to reach farther than they need either intentially or unintentially due to misunderstanding the technical details.

For the first example, The British Phonographic Institute (BPI) has a statement argueing that big tech companies, under current safe harbor laws, are allowed to profit off user uploaded content if it contains music. The statement says:

> This so called “safe harbour” from liability means that sites can provide a vast global jukebox of music whilst arguing they don't even need to negotiate a licence to do so.

I can't think of a single site that operates in this manner. Besides upload filters, Youtube allows copyright holders to flag videos for copyright violation. Does this work differently in the EU than the US currently? The system seems to be very effective to the point that it's abuse is widely critized. Are other sites currently implementing a subpar system? Are there EU hosted sites that are currently providing these "global jukebox's" ? I guess I haven't seen a single online site in a while that provides unlicensed music in the manner that BPI describes. The best example was Grooveshark but that's been defunct for years.

https://www.bpi.co.uk/news-analysis/bpi-brit-awards-ceo-geof...

I don't think money would be spend on lobbying if they didn't think there would be a return; therefore there must be some industry, site, or platform that EU copyright holders think they can extract rent from or push more people into buying music. Given that the most likely form of music copyright infringement is having music in the background of a video uploaded to some social media site, I guess it seems that copyright holders are after the ad revenu of user-generated/uploaded content sites (Facebook, Reddit, etc). If their music appears in the background of a video, they want a slice of the ad-revenue the site collects. But I think many sites would opt to just muting the audio (like Twitch already does).

If videos with background music are the major target of this legislation and would impact any site that allows users to upload videos, the expense of building an identification system and forking over a portion of the ad-revenue is likely less than using ML to selectively remove/replace the background music while leaving other sounds in-tact. In the short term I expect sites to just mute copyright infringing portions.
Incidentally, it appears most of the CGI models still exist, at least in the hands of the original modelers.
http://trekcore.com/blog/2013/05/deep-space-nine-in-high-def...
There are varying degrees of "military lab," my favorite example being the National Ignition Facility.
Agree - whataboutism is brought out against another negative thing to say - well everyone else is doing it, what about them?
Site is down, here's the most recent copy from the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20180809061136/http://thestudent...
That is not true, Amtrak used to run a service called Mail & Express. One of the trains was indeed mixed passenger and freight.

That said, Amtrak engines are also often leased to other freight companies so you can frequently see freight trains being hauled by Amtrak branded engines.
Eagle is in a weird place right now. For years it was functionally quite good, but horribly outdated UI-wise. I learned PCB design using Eagle, and will still go to Eagle first because I know I can knock out a breakout board in half an hour. But, the user interface was like something from Windows 95.

Then Autodesk got involved and everyone flipped their tables. On the whole, I think it's been a good move. Cadsoft let Eagle stagnate. Autodesk have already implemented a lot of really useful features - why did it take so long to add layer groups (like top/bottom sets)? Or board previews? Or push/shove routing? Real-time DRC violation alerts? On the other hand, the UI changes slightly every time there's a (frequent) update which takes getting used to. They're very active on the Autodesk forums and they seem genuinely interested in making it a more usable piece of software.

I think it still needs a year or two for the dust to settle, but I still enjoy using it. I'm fortunate that I have a license as university staff, but the free version has always been pretty nice (I don't think I've ever needed a board bigger than 100x160).

Part of Eagle's popularity stems (I guess) from SparkFun and Adafruit using it, historically, for a lot of their tutorials.
This is why cloud development environments are a bad idea, instead companies should be focused on open source and client-side automated solutions.
>>> California.

It’s much easier to bring in illicit firearms across unmonitored state lines than national boundaries.

>>> I'd rather have individual rights and armed guards in the schools and places of worship.

Horrifying.

So taking away everyone’s right to feel safe and secure? Wonderful. And to be alive. That’s the problem, life is always trade offs. I don’t feel comfortable with everyone armed, that infringed on my rights. Any other country that took away guns, gun crime went down, that’s facts. The reality is you don’t need guns. I don’t need guns. I do however want to live. And I want my children to grow up in a country without mass shooter drills and metal detectors so you can pursue your hobby, because 300 years ago a few people thought everyone should have muskets and slaves. Constitutions are amendable for a reason.

Sounds like that trade off is just better.
Any suggestions of services that help a company obtain the ICP License?