skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I signed up for Disney Theatre in Japan the other day to catch up on some Marvel movies before seeing the new Avengers movie.

I’ve seen a few comments about how it’s easy to create and cancel accounts for these services. In this case it was extremely complicated and I almost gave up.

Step 1: download the Disney theatre app on my Apple TV.

Step 2: After it opens, use the resulting QR code to open the registration site on my phone and create an account

Step 3: Link the account to another account for docomo (one of the main cell phone providers and the only way to pay)

Step 4: Make a docomo account since I don’t have one

Step 5: add payment to the new docomo account

Step 6: login to my new Disney account when prompted

Step 7: Download the Marvel, Disney and Disney Theatre apps when prompted

Step 8: Open the Marvel app on my phone and login with my new Disney account

Step 9: Find the movie I want to watch. Oops, it’s not there, find another one. Click on it and it opens the Disney theatre app on my phone, which I have to login to. Here I realize that the Marvel app is for extra content.

Step 10: Realize that the app on my Apple TV is not authenticated yet, go back to the authentication site, which allows the app to work

Step 11: Find and watch a movie

They truly messed up the experience here. First, content here is even more fragmented in Japan and often bundled to mobile provider plans. This was a failure for consumers until Netflix gained enough content to blow the other streaming services out of the water. I suspect the docomo deal was made years ago when it was the norm and someone convinced Disney it was expected. I doubt the equivalent (eg link to your T-mobile account) will be required for payment in the US version. Second, downloading and signing in to multiple apps is a hassle. The extra apps have content such as interviews with actors and... themed cupcake recipes. It feels very corporate and I wouldn’t predict that the potential extra added value will surpass extra confusion.

All of that being said, I could probably tolerate HBO and Disney as unique subscriptions, plus Netflix, Amazon and specific sports leagues. Any more fragmentation than 4-5 services and I’m more likely to unsubscribe from all of them.
Indeed. I wrote a Python pretty printer that uses a Wadler/Leijen algorithm, and it's a great fit. It doesn't take too long to learn how to use the layout primitives, and it allows for easy creation of higher level abstractions while still maintaining plenty of control.

https://github.com/tommikaikkonen/prettyprinter
Gentleman Officer
I quite enjoy avoiding "the 'money' question" by doing things so stupid that nobody would ever think it was a "business", or so grey-area that nobody would ever expect me to associate my real name with it...
Personally excited to enter the twenties so we can refer to decades by standard nomenclature again!
This is why I frequently go to my banks and card companies, and report my cards lost, asking for new numbers, in an effort to destroy stragglers. Seems, though, some companies keep recurring payments alive on dead numbers, which is slightly evil if you ask me.
This is the first thing that comes to mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.30-06_Springfield

I’ve only ever heard this pronounced thirty aught-six.
This is a completely misleading headline. The headline should be: "Insurers know how often Americans who voluntarily choose to carry spy-phones ("smart phones") are to look at their spy-phones while driving".

What's worse is that many people in the comment section of this article seem to be surprised that they are being tracked by the tracking devices they choose to carry.
Never heard the dub dubs but I’ll start using that immediately
Yeah, and Putrajaya barely qualifies as moving the capital, given it's still part of KL's metropolitan area.
Drift is open about where they're sourcing the data. Well, openish. See eg

https://gethelp.drift.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019504314-Cle...

Let me walk back that "too sleazy for Adobe" -- too sleazy for my guess for the $ on offer. The money probably is not large; maybe low to mid 6 figures tops. That type of money probably can't even get you a callback from a BD person at Adobe; they don't get out of bed for under a million dollars.
Actually... (sorry, couldn’t resist), I’m not sure why you expected something shocking or even provocative. The book is a deep dive into the mind of someone who decides to commit a murder, does it, and then has to live with it. That someone happens to be a relatively normal guy who you can understand and even relate to.

At least that was my impression of the book when I read it 25 years ago (I was 16 at the time).
Many people have side-hustles in which money isn't —at all— the goal. Generally, they like creating stuff (software, bikes, whatever, really) and the process is what they truly enjoy.

Try to find like-minded people at Meetups
GitLab product director for CI/CD here - thanks so much for the feedback, everyone. It's really great to read how much you're getting value out of what we built.

We have an overall CI/CD direction page up at https://about.gitlab.com/direction/cicd which you can drill down into the individual stages plans from. Feedback is always welcome, we love building things in partnership with real users. You can reach me at jason@gitlab.com any time.
I'd be curious to know how well that's enforced. There's an ocean full of HR tech startups that are doing just that programmatically, to produce scores on all sorts of things to rate candidates.
Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they don't exist.

And, there has been one pure "software" kernel access released (for 1.0.0), as well as a handful of later kernel exploits that haven't been.

Nintendo is right to be paranoid about ANY code execution, because that is the first step to reducing the pool of end users who can then "root" their consoles.
>Although Rivest initially released the puzzle’s code in Java, Fabrot realized it could be solved faster if he used the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library, free software written in C for doing “precise arithmetic.” So Fabrot dedicated one of the CPU cores on his home desktop computer to running squaring operations in an attempt to solve the puzzle. He says his computer was running the operation 24/7, except when he would have to leave on vacation or there was a power outage.

It seems as if your 2014 comment hinted at this project. Applause for keeping this tight lipped for those years.

2014 comment:
>Java is quite fast compared to most languages but for some things it is still terribly slow compared to C / C++. I had to do some big integers crunching lately and tried: Java, Go, Go with GMP, C (GMP) and Haskell (using GMP under the hood). Eventually I went for good old C with the latest GMP version for it was the fastest for my use case (with Haskell and Go with GMP coming close but still not as fast as C).
Java was, for the computation I needed to do... Eight times slower than C! I know I was hitting a edge case for a very specific kind of computation but still. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7979006
This reminds me very strongly of Google's string::Substitute(). Super convenient, and IIRC it was faster than sprintf as well.

Looks like it's now public as a part of Abseil: https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/blob/bf29470384a101b307...
The hyper-specialist shops of Berlin
Interesting. I definitely prefer “twenty nineteen”, but can’t swear I would never call it “two thousand nineteen”. It might end up sticking around until 2100.
Should we make rules for the people who live in a suburb, or the people who don’t?

And bigger roads are not a solution to anything.
I watched it on Sky Atlantic (satellite, not streamed) and it looked ok, there was definite banding and other artefacts in the dark/foggy scenes. It looked fine for the most part, though.
> To me, the bigger WTF is having to train people to use a dishwasher--hopefully that is something most adults can be expected to know how to do already.

You'd think, but in this case it is surprisingly unintuitive. The machine is a small high-throughput commercial grade item (takes just a few minutes per wash) which has little in common with home dishwashers. Further, its touchscreen interface is honestly really confusing. It took me a few goes and several wrong turns before I got it right, and this was with motivation.
Show HN: Python Client Library for Truverifi
This article is fun to read. Incidentally, my daughter just took a test for a gifted program. She didn't study for it as recommended by our school district. She scored 95% in one subject. But the qualified cut-off rate is 98%!

My eyes just rolled looking at that number. That means they only pick 98 and 99 percentiles. For a first grader to score that high, she needs to answer the exam perfectly. If you have some statistics training, you'll see this score is like shooting yourself in the foot. You're more likely selecting prepared test takers than gifted students.

I congratulated my daughter on her score. We went out for dinner and got tasty pastries for dessert. Life is too short to waste our time on these dumb tests.
Australian politics is among the most duplicitous in the world. The Australian people have a long history of letting their ruling classes get away with murder - pillage of the land is nothing in a country founded on genocide.

I used to think it was an annoying joke that, when confronted with the fact of my Australian heritage, my American and British colleagues would .. 'jokingly' .. refer to me as a criminal from the prison down under. Now, in my more mature years, I see "Australia, land of criminals" more as a cynical truth, quite as a matter of fact. Australians don't care that their land is being mistreated by massive robots run by multi-national, quasi-sovereign entities - as long as there are avocados to smash ..
Apologies, I know very little Haskell - does that example mean that `computeSecond` will always be called, even if `computeFirst` failed? If it does, it's not the same as the Go code which will not call `computeSecond` in that case (which might be a requirement - who knows?)

I'm also assuming that `f first second` will return (an error monad?) if either of `first` or `second` are (an error monad?) - is that right?
<the lessons would consist only of spelling, grammar and punctuation.>

Now I for, 1 wood, find that too be useful!
>Starting at something other than zero is like, the #1 thing that cable news channels do to make charts flashed on the screen for a few seconds look exaggerated.

In this case however it is not being flashed on the screen for a few seconds, so we have plenty of time to read it and notice the axis labels, then argue in the comments that the label that we read is deceptive because people might not read it.

Also, if labelling the y axis on this graph as something other than zero is deceptive, should the x axis start at the beginning of time?
The author mentions learning how to properly format metadata to have links unfurl nicely in Slack and other social media platforms. Are there any debugging tools that let you see what an URL would look like on all platforms at once, without having to post it everywhere and deal with caches when you have to change the content ?
Sorry for the broken links.

Yes, you are correct, that's what it says in the announcement but that is not correct. The "old" ASF git stuff was decommissioned, yes. It's a bit misleading.

A more detailed explanation has been put up here: https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache-and-github-a-fri...
When AWS introduced Ground Station [0] I was unsure as to their motivation. Looking back on it, this kind of endeavour might have been the impetus for the service. In fact, given how much of the "Internet" depends on AWS, SpaceX using Ground Station might actually lower latency to your favorite website.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/
You may find our direction page for CI/CD at GitLab interesting if you're looking to learn more about the possibilities involved here. We do all of our planning and roadmapping in public so you read a bit about our overall technical challenges and approach there, and drill down into the stages (CI, packaging, and CD) that make up the capabilities within GitLab, each of which have their own videos and other planning content.

https://about.gitlab.com/direction/cicd/
The sentiment is the market is overvalued and at the top of the cycle.
I think these kind of home-grown systems are pretty hard to "sell" to others. I know that I've written a couple, my general approach was to :

* Get triggered by a github (enterprise) webhook.

* Work out the project, and clone it into a temporary directory.

* Launch a named docker container, bind-mounting the temporary directory to "/project" inside the image.

* Once the container exits copy everything from "/output" to the host - those are the generated artifacts.

There's a bit of glue to tie commit-hashes to the appropriate output, and a bit of magic to use `rsync` to allow moving output artifactes to the next container in the pipeline, if multiple steps are run.

But in short I'd probably spend more time explaining the system than an experienced devops person would be creating their own version.
That's the same percentage as Linux users, and just yesterday I closed my Box.com membership because the don't have a Linux client "due to low demand".
Assuming you aren't trying to intentionally throw shade on CA rent control:

Rent SUBSIDIES are a hidden redistribution as you discuss.

Rent CONTROL forces recent transplants to subsidize longtime residents

Ie. gov prevents raising rents to market levels for longtime tenants. They are less likely to move, driving up demand for the remaining housing, which is the only stock available for newer residents.

This then costs newcomers more, while longtime residents avoid paying the market rate on their housing - effectively subsidizing the in-place tenants.
The CIA's involvement in the Whitlam fiasco is no rumour - it has been broadly acknowledged, in fact.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-...

"Our man, Kerr...": no nation has fallen so hard on such little breath.

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/cia-declassifies-report-on-t...
Well don't hold back. What are the games :)
For me, the best part of having a personal web site is the ability to link to it for content.

http://www.w6rz.net/gameofthrones_season8_episode3.png
Isn’t the basic problem the use of multiple choice? Being able to write a few hundred words arguing an opinion about a poem (right or wrong) has some value. Picking an arbitrarily chosen ‘right’ answer from a list has almost none.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a multiple choice exam in English Lit - actually, I don’t remember multiple choice in any serious exam.
> I think the majority of these algorithms are not really something you will find implementing in day to day work. And at most I can see myself using a library with one of those.

That's true but if you don't know what's possible, it's likely that you don't even look for it or stumble over it randomly.

So you should know about them, even if you never implement them. You wouldn't need to know about them in that detail for that but it's just plain fun to learn stuff like this. :-)
Nope, the mean population center of the contiguous United States is somewhere west of St. Louis.

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

Actually not too far away from the geographic center which is somewhere in Kansas.
The MPC 60: A drum machine that revolutionized music production
Wow I hadn't thought about that. I also think most people haven't yet realised this is the last year of the current decade!
Oh I see, that's a fair point. Perhaps in your case it makes sense to have some presence when you know that people may you look you up. Although, I would still argue that should not be reason enough - unless that it is, you actually want to have a personal website and enjoy writing.

In my case, I often feel like my opinions are so asinine and generally not worth sharing that I just don't feel the urge to set them in stone, so to speak.
It pretty much is imho because it's just this one game and there are more.
Something about this comments page plays the Trogdor the Burninator song (in the premii HN app on Android). I've never had that happen before, anyone else experiencing it?
LTE hasn’t made as much of a replacement in Home Broadband in rural as much as you’d think largely due to tower congestion. Cell site density is so low — plus deprioritization at 30/50gb.

In addition you’ve usually got only 1-2 networks in deep rural.

Source : I run an MVNO.
> If any workplace ever implements this - leave.

> I'm not paying my engineers $200k a year to load a dishwasher for even a minute. We have cleaners who do it as part of their rotation, anything else and you're running a clown show.

I see your point, but it's means to an end. Our immediate goal, as a group of motivated employees, is to remove the paper cups. This is being done with the grudging acceptance of the team who actually run the building, who would probably be much happier if we stopped trying to change things, making their lives more complicated. Thus, while we can make the change we desire quickly and relatively easily, we must also handle the downsides of the change, to be successful - otherwise, it would be reversed. Long-term, having a dedicated cleaner do this would be optimal... but that's a change that would take far longer to enact.
EDIT: Release notes: https://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#

One technology that has stood the test of time- amazingly well designed TeX by Donald Knuth and LaTeX by Leslie Lamport.

Plain TeX can be a bit beginner unfriendly because most beginners use LaTeX and experienced people have their own 'coding style' but it's amazingly powerful.

I only wish somebody would add the minimum required primitives to plain TeX to render reflowable text in browsers and ebook readers

TeX was designed for "beautiful" typesetting but it gives you much more control than that IMHO. I'd urge everyone to try it out once, I use it offline but I think overleaf.com allows for plain TeX too. (XeTeX may work best for unicode, it's plain tex + minimal additions for Unicode)

On that note- I am not fond of PDFs because of their awfully poor unicode search support- does anybody knowledgeable know of a good target format I should use (and the appropriate drivers?)
What is the difference that makes it work for you now where it didn't before?
How to Write Chord Progressions with Negative Harmony
> Why is this a bad thing?

It is not. :)

I kept myself out of the internet for most of my life. Once I reached my 40s, I decided that I was wise enough to share my experiences in a way that can enrich myself and others. And, I think that it was a good call of judgement. I have never hold extreme opinions (ok, I like Windows) but I didn't have enough knowledge to know how companies will value my writing.

Now that I have a career and a long life experience, I feel confident to publish online. I value young people writings, so being young should not be a stopper to have an online presence. But, you need to evaluate how you feel about it and how much you really know what are you doing.

So, maybe to be a complete ghost online can be a good sign that people are thoughtful or that they have a less extrovert character and none of them is a bad thing.
EU has completely different rules for monopolies. And the US is based in the US which accounts for around half it's revenue and probably an even higher percentage of its profit. They are most vulnerable in regards to US law.
A different way to visualize rhythm – John Varney
Captions definitely lowers quality significantly! I think there is post processing for dynamic range that basically kills the dark scenes if captions are on.
I think it will largely depend on how the new stocks perform. The early employees, senior engineers and upper management are probably already pulling in large enough salaries where they could afford to buy if they wanted to. But newer employees (last 3-4 years), HR, sales, etc.. might not have enough appreciation in their options to move the needle much in this housing market ($400k-$500k windfall does not go nearly as far as it used to, and that is probably on the high end for the median employee). This is somewhat due to the fact that these companies have had sky high valuations for so long (Uber was valued at $40B in 2014, projected to go public at $100-120B, so only 3x in 5 years).
> is it a good business decision to de-prioritize talking to people who don't have a website? I'd be real surprised if the answer was yes.

I agree absolutely, as the party seeking individuals this would be foolhardy. But even if all hiring managers acknowledge this, it can still pay for individuals to put up a website, because this allows one to frame and refine ones own ideas, and thus catch the fancy of a potential hiring manager or collaborator preemptively, without requiring that person to be in a room with them and ask the right questions at the right time. Think of it as a way to increase serendipity.
It's based on real life like Dilbert is based on real life.
Well, yes, but actually no. I grew up with both parents teaching in public schools in subjects that cannot be tested in a multiple choice format. They both sat down every night in front of the tv and shuffled papers from inbox to outbox, quickly scribbling a score on each. Very very little thought seemed to go into the content of the work, and I always wondered if they were scanning the names in the top right corner to make their judgment. I never did ask, though. Either way, I’m not sure much could change; even without giving these kids a fair shake, it still took hours to grade these. It’s a broken system and the only palatable response seems to be to throw more money at it and hope for different results.
This applies to social networks & chat apps as well, data image/video is compressed to a level that camera/source quality doesn't matter and hence it's always recommended to email that important image rather WhatsApp it.
Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative (1976) [pdf]
Do Octopuses Have Souls? (On the Nature of Animal Consciousness)
PureVPN, Ivacy, and a few others (unsure if IAPS still exist in 2019) are large liars
Has Illumination Entertainment contacted you at any point to ask for that domain?
>using a chart with a zeroed axis seems to work just fine for the very next chart in the article.

It actually has an axis at around -6, hence why the bars are floating above the axis. Looks like they do this to make it clear which graphs are full range and which are clipped, as the clipped ones touch the axis.
This also holds for eg. age and sex discrimination - find out who they are, reject them for something else. Not being able to easily enforce a law doesn't mean one should break it.