skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would've gone against them: either you reprimand me and we take out the feature, or we keep it and then you thank me.
That's a plot point of The Kings Speech, is it not?
It's also part of The King's Speech, about George VI's stammer.
Brilliant, he found a way of dealing with it, fuck sjws
Interesting thought - is it the personal transgression or the social that makes it effective?
Drinking at least two liters of water per day - unsupported

Eating an apple a day - unsupported

Saturated fats causing increased cholesterol, thus leading to heart failure - unsupported

It seems that almost everything we've been told since childhood to be healthy has no scientific basis whatsoever.
While we are a bit on this topic: is there a alternative to calibre [1] for managing a shitload (50000+) of ebooks which is still performant? Specially ebooks which have no ISBN (PDF, whitepapers, etc) which only information about them is in their EXIF file data.

[1] https://calibre-ebook.com
This is great. Always love seeing what can be accomplished with just a shell.

Wish I could get more time to work on micro-optimisations, in this age you often get funny looks proposing to dig down and optimise sluggish code. Spin up more compute and call it a day they say.

While that's completely understandable from a business perspective, it's somewhat unsatisfying as a developer, the expertise that comes from it surely has lasting benefits too.
Newsom wants companies collecting data to share the wealth with Californians
Typically it's more like thin but with poor muscle definition. Not overweight but not fit.

But assuming the gp was exercising with weights etc, they might mean that they felt they weren't overweight but were carrying excess fat in certain areas, or considered themselves bloated.
Sorry if I rubbed you the wrong way. I didn't mean to specifically target any person with what I wrote. I was rather well aware that what I wrote is visible to the public, and I tried to word it to address any reader.
I doubt old guy with barn full of books is looking to insure his rare books.
Thinner and softer; noodle arms. You can be thin or lean, but skinny-fat is marked by soft muscle.
Maybe you're hungry in the morning _because_ you eat breakfast
I believe it's using "fat" as a catch-all term for an unhealthy body composition. You appear skinny but lack muscle. I don't think you necessarily have to have "hidden" excess fat to be called this term.
For anyone considering skipping breakfast but finding themselves too hungry, I would recommend trying it anyway. When I eat breakfast regularly I get hungry at that time of day, but once I’ve skipped it for a week or two then my body seems to get used to it and I no longer get hungry at that time.

Also, black coffee for me helps suppress my appetite.
I always thought the focus on breakfast came from our peasant roots. My ancestors were field workers and eating a huge breakfast + lunch made sense from an energy input standpoint.
Library of Congress catalog information is more generally available, by ISBN if not already on the copyright page. For any conventionally published book since 1970.

http://eresources.loc.gov
Very true but I suppose we can't have it all, plus maybe it's sensitive information.
> The honesty of the status updates written by the participants was assessed following the approach introduced by Newman, Pennebaker, Berry, and Richards (2003) using LIWC. Their analyses showed that liars use fewer first-person pronouns (e.g., I, me), fewer third-person pronouns (e.g., she, their), fewer exclusive words (e.g., but, exclude), more motion verbs (e.g., arrive, go), and more negative words (e.g., worried, fearful; Newman, Pennebaker, Berry, & Richards, 2003). The explanation was that dishonest people subconsciously try to (1) dissociate themselves from the lie and therefore refrain from referring to themselves, (2) prefer concrete over abstract language when referring to others (using someone’s name instead of “he” or “she”), (3) are likely to feel discomfort by lying and therefore express more negative feelings, and (4) require more mental resources to obscure the lie and therefore end up using less cognitively demanding language, which is characterized by a lower frequency of exclusive words and a higher frequency of motion verbs. Equation and usage rates in this study are summarized in Table 2.

> Newman et al. (2003) achieved up to 67% accuracy when detecting lies, which was significantly higher than the 52% near-chance accuracy achieved by human judges. Their approach has been successfully applied to behavioral data (Slatcher et al., 2007) and to Facebook status updates (Feldman, Chao, Farh, & Bardi, 2015). Other studies have since found support for these LIWC dimensions as being indicative of lying and dishonesty (Bond & Lee, 2005; Hancock, Curry, Goorha, & Woodworth, 2007; see meta-analyses by DePaulo et al., 2003 and Hauch, Masip, Blandón-Gitlin, & Sporer, 2012).

So it's all purely from linguistic analysis of the status updates. Seems like a stretch to me but I wouldn't doubt the overall result is true.
It is hard to keep track of all answers, just complains about being stuck in tech X and how .NET has saved your life from whatever.

Which yeah, might have been the point, but hardly a picture of the global job market.
> real-life social interactions on Facebook

oxymoron
Surely it would depend on whether the speaker thought it was acceptable or not?
In ‘cash for calm’ bid, Hamas shows it’s ready to fight
I'm in the UK, and since being a kid I've always heard "breakfast is the most important meal of the day". This was never specifically about cereal, but that's what most kids in the UK eat for breakfast - especially given at the time we were all told fat was evil, and would basically kill us.

Nowadays I don't eat breakfast, as it helps control my weight, and TBH I don't miss it. When I started doing this, I thought about those "truths" I'd been fed as a kid, and suspected they came out of paid-for pseudoscience. A year or so ago I actually looked into this, and sure enough, all these claims about breakfast are from studies sponsored by Kellogs, other cereal brands, or companies closely associated with them.

Governments base policy on these kind of claims, and over time they become unquestioned "truths" - paid-for, corporate science shilling really is an absolute fucking scourge on society.
First it was fat, so we got low fat products and the sugar replaced it. Now sugar is the enemy, so low carb high fat (Keto). Next will be protein.
So which JEPs on OpenJDK are being done by Pivotal? I fail to find them.

IBM does minor contributions to Java, and mainly follows the language specification non their own JVMs.

IBM was also the only company that bothered to make an initial proposal to acquire Sun, but withdrew it after Oracle's.
I'm using Google hangouts instead of Skype.

Skype is way too slow for too damn long.

They improve the design but not the UX.
Don't confuse unsupported with no scientific basis. The scientific method allows for making hypothesis that are later demonstrated to be false. It can absolutely be the case that the old recommendations were the best we knew at the time from science, and be unsupported today.
That always happens. You work on something new, so it is outside your expertise. Then you learn and it becomes expertise. :)
> profanity and dishonesty. These two forms of norm-violating behavior

This implies that honesty is the "norm". I disagree. IMO social etiquette dictates a tremendous amount of "everyday dishonesty" "white micro-lies", and even just not engaging in those (i.e. not "being actively honest", but already just "not being actively dishonest") breaks social norms in a noticeable way.
"There is a very outspoken group that claims that if you are not using a debugger, you don't know how to write code"

I have never seen that
"Real experts do $XYZ" where XYZ is your opinion.
> If you're offended by…

Please keep in mind the guidelines[1].

> Don't be snarky.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
1st, where is this treasure trove?

2nd, barcode scanning would certainly be the most effective method.
And yet when the freshman Congresswoman Rashida Talib said "we'll impeach the motherfucker" everyone lost their shit and MSNBC/CNN and any other left leaning news network dropped their shit to jump on the bandwagon of harassing her.
Transporter, as in the Star Trek series. We're talking of particles these days, but let's get it done for people and objects.

Imagine the changes to society... Instantly visiting someone on the other side of the planet, or for that matter, shipping anything to and from a colony in another planet.
The Dev Tool That You Are Missing
What is your search engine of personal choice?
Oh, you are a paying customer right ? have you tried contacting their support ?
using two English words as the name would already be an improvement for the common web-searcher... As an example, here is the name of two apps that do similar things: "Blue iris" and "motion".... let me know which one that you are able find more quickly.
"You don't need to allow firefox to install and run studies, that's just a way of letting firefox automatically install this xpi."

In that case I am wondering why Mozila didn't provide a direct link...it would have been faster. Maybe there is another reason to ask us to run studies...wondering.
It's not really more complicated; it is strictly incorrect to claim that Switzerland has the power to restrict and filter immigrants which is what I was responding to.

Of course, it hasn't always been that way. Strictly speaking full EU freedom of movement has been in place since 2002 but like everything in Switzerland, it can take years for federal decisions to be reflected in local law.

I disagree strongly with your characterization of Swiss immigrants as being richer than those of the UK. The UK may have more (proportionally speaking) Poles, but Switzerland has a larger number of Kosovars, Serbs and other ex-Yugoslavia people who are even poorer. It also has a huge "poor" Portuguese immigrant population - mucher bigger per-capita than the Poles in the UK. On a per-capital basis, Switzerland has 3 times as many foreign-born than the UK. Both countries attract both highly paid immigrants and bottom quartile workers in large amounts.

The 2014 referendum has been already been translated into law and NO FILTERING has been introduced for EU citizens - it just means companies have to advertise the job to existing Swiss residents. Nothing substantial has changed.
Thank you for finding the details of the methodology. I find this unconvincing. 67% accuracy, while better than a coin flip, is still pretty low. 1/3rd of their data points on the relationship between dishonesty and profanity on Facebook are wrong by their own admission.
> What new system will we use (..)

Starvation, if human history is any guide.
In my personal anecdotal experience, skipping breakfast and instead "fasting" from last night's dinner through to lunch has been really effective at weight control. You are starving by 10am for the first few days you do it, but after that you dont even notice you've skipped eating breakfast. Makes you wonder why you even had breakfast in the first place after a while. I believe that skipping breakfast has now been given a grandiose term of "intermittent fasting" or "intermittent energy restriction diet". I still call it skipping breakfast.

I'll still have breakfast at the weekends as its more of a social thing then, but on the usual 9-5 rat race I just skip it and save 10-20 mins of my day usually spent getting/making + eating breakfast. I even skip before a morning workout - so far no problems after many years doing it.
Incredible article, as a part of the younger European generation, had literally no idea about Lazar and the times in the US show business.
Hubspot needs to expand into startup culture building consulting, it's not enough to disrupt while making world a better place they need to pass the torch of their amazing culture building expertise to the new startups.
I also using 56.0.2 (64 bit). Can you help me finding solution? I am on different date now to use FF, but I am already 2 days in the past. I tried to use your script and have:
"// For FF < v57 >...?
async function set_addons_as_signed() {
Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm");
Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/AddonManager.jsm");
let XPIDatabase = this.XPIInternal.XPIDatabase;

let addons = await XPIDatabase.getAddonList(a => true);

for (let addon of addons) {
// The add-on might have vanished, we'll catch that on the next startup
if (!addon._sourceBundle.exists())
continue;

if( addon.signedState != AddonManager.SIGNEDSTATE_UNKNOWN )
continue;

addon.signedState = AddonManager.SIGNEDSTATE_NOT_REQUIRED;
AddonManagerPrivate.callAddonListeners("onPropertyChanged",
addon.wrapper,
["signedState"]);

await XPIProvider.updateAddonDisabledState(addon);

}
XPIDatabase.saveChanges();
}

set_addons_as_signed();

Promise { <state>: "pending" }"

EDIT: have this one now: ado.config({ consent: true }); inpl.anc.js:40

Also what hotfix you refer too. I can not install hotfix-update-xpi-intermediate@mozilla.com-1.0.2-signed.xpi on old version :/

EDIT2: Installed this fix using debuging but it is not for a old FF and got some errors:

Reading manifest: Error processing hidden: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.
Reading manifest: Error processing experiment_apis: An unexpected property was found in the WebExtension manifest.
before dozing after 1 AM

Not to be overly dismissive, but sounds like the guy needs better sleep habits. My mood is weakened by one day of bad sleep, but oh my, if I get two bad sleep nights in a row, my mood is atrocious.
Ask HN: Is freelance web development still a viable path in 2019?
With the advent of wix, squarespace, and other code free forms of website developement, it seems as if the demand for custom built sites are at an all time low.

The little demand left is shared among a seemingly never ending hord of aspiring freelance developers, many of whom are willing to work at prices far below that of what their skills had once demanded.

With a market such as this what place, if any, is there for new developers who wish to break into freelancing? Is there any hope at all for these developers? Or have the days of freelancing been put to an end by abstraction and oversaturation?
>The moral of this story is that if you're tasked to do something outside your expertise, you make it your expertise.

I don't think the OP is talking about learning some search engine, library or programming language. With 'outside of your expertise', he meant outside of programming.

Say you are writing some medical software that has to diagnose patient based on some inputs. You, as a programmer, are not a doctor and you can't "make" it your expertise within the time constraints of the project.
Booxia – clip highlights from web and Kindle with spaced repetition
Pretty much all of the code I write is outside of my domain of expertise; my training is as a biologist. I have a computational background only as a result of my own (lifelong) amateur interest. This is the case for most people in biology doing computational work, since there are not many good programs for integrating study of biology and computing (despite the fact that biology is now 100% dependent on computing and statistics to understand experimental results).

As a result I ended up taking on the task of creating software infrastructure to support biology work and fill in these holes. This means I'm creating applications from the ground up, handling every aspect of it - front end, back end, authorization, calculation, storage, deployment, etc. I have zero training in any of these things, which is sometimes harrowing. I make the best choices I can, but ultimately I think I'm pretty hampered by my limited understanding of the available methods. I.e., I can write CSS, but I don't know how to write a grid layout engine using flex. I have read some Bruce Schneier books, but I don't know how to design or audit login protocols. I at some point learned how to use a relational database but don't know all the fancy new map/reduce type datastores that are available that might be more appropriate to my work. Etc.

I suspect that if you look in any domain outside of computing, you'll find people like me who are writing code by making things work without much specific training.
I didn't get into the article.
I checked it after your comment and you're right.

Hubspot for startups is very different than Airbnb startups ecosystem/
This is a complex project, though also a well-developed space -- it's much of what libraries do.

Numerous queryable catalogues of book and other matrials exist, with Worldcat arguably the most developed of those:

https://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/classify...

The US Library of Congress also has a huge (if intimidating) amount of information available.

http://eresources.loc.gov

http://fortune.com/2017/05/17/library-of-congress-free-recor...

Figuring out what you hope to accomplish, how, with what resurces (people, software, equipment, space, etc.), in what timeframe, and with what throughput (how fast are materials arriving and leaving, whatis the current backlog) are all considerations. And what end this will serve; book sales, in-person or online, and what is sufficient to that end is also significant.
He seems to be somewhere on the schizophrenia spectrum, or at least susceptible to conspiracy theories.

But he presents his theories in a logically consistant way, or lets say at least in a way that it can be checked whether it is logically consistant. He also has many peer-reviewed publications in cosmology. The Janus stuff is properly published [1].

I don't think one easily dismiss his theory because of his other stuff.

[1] Petit, J.-P. (April 1995). "Twin universes cosmology". Astrophysics and Space Science 227 (2): 273–307.
Hunger is an interesting feeling. The tide sweeps in, hunger emerges like a wave, a call for action on the horizon. It reaches a crescendo, and then collapses, and disappears. At least, that's how my "routine hunger" feels: eat at time A on day 1, and you'll be hungry at time A on day 2.

The thing to remember about hunger as a craving is that it'll always pass if you leave it alone. Have a cup of water and let it go.

(please note: this is only referring to short term hunger sensations. there is a longer term hunger, but it feels different, more subtle but more all-encompassing)
I have split up my browsing and search among multiple browsers, depending on the use case, and I use Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo and Startpage, mostly for having different perspectives as I found out that only using google limited the stuff I found. (Google serves Startpages different results than what they show themselves)
Numberphile did a video on short papers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvvkJT8myeI
> [devs who don't heed to security primacy] should risk having their professional software development licenses revoked and companies being fined by watchdogs.

But there is no such thing as a "software development license".

Is that just naive wishful thinking? I mean, do you think that the way to secure systems is layer after layer of pain-in-the-ass red-tape and heavily silo-ed organizational structure?

Instead of just forcing people to "dance to your tune" perhaps a more cooperative approach is better?
Interesting thought! My wife sleeps much lighter and much longer compared to me. I sleep pretty hard, and sans alarms, tend around 7hrs sleep or less. She sleeps light, and will go 9+ hrs without an alarm or kids waking her up.
Completely agree. Working in a corporate environment, people tend to shy away from any type of negativity or conflict, at all. Being blunt and direct is viewed negatively. I have been told by mentors that I'm too direct and to the point as a critique, which is something I didn't know was even possible.

It's incredible. But I have had to train myself to add "fluff" and language to "soften" what I am trying to communicate.
> Data is sold to inform targeted adverts

That's the part that needs to go away. I think the original version of Google had the right idea. The content of the page determines the ads.

Billions of dollars that have been spent on brilliant engineers, bandwidth, and CPU cycles to improve ad targeting by a fraction of a percent here and another fraction there. I can't help but feel like the big winners in the web of the past two decades are ad companies and not creators. Even the term content creator points to this. Ads are what is important and the stuff they go around is just content.

We've devalued creative work to the point of absurdity.
My favorite

“If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have told him faster horses”
Used as a counter-argument to the previous statement, when you start to realize you won’t have time or money to do enough user research.
I suggest they're just trying to increase their signal to noise ratio, part of an arms race made de-facto I think by the new President.

The New Yorkification of Twitter.
Zotero, generally?
IIRC you can change the title of the submission only during the first hour.

Send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com with a link to the submission and the proposed new title. Add a short explanation (2 or 3 sentences). They usually reply soon.

This is a manual process, so use it only in emergencies. (This change is not an emergency, but I think it's a good idea to fix that.)
”Euler proposed that the equation, a^n + b^n = c^n doesn’t hold true if the value of “n” is greater than “2”. Then in 1966, two mathematicians L.J. Lander and T.R. Parkin came along and swiftly overturned his claim with a counterexample: 27^5 + 84^5 + 110^5 + 133^5 = 144^5”

That’s mixing Euler’s claim that you need to sum at least n n-th powers to get another n-th power (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_sum_of_powers_conjec...) with the (less general) Fermat’s last theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_last_theorem)

The example in the paper disproved Euler’s conjecture, but did nothing about Fermat’s.
Qwant.com produces far better results than DDG in my experience.
Blergh, you are 100% correct
I recently moved north. Without blackout curtains, I'm getting less sleep in summer and am much more sleepy in winter.
Cutting thru the clickbait:
Someone built a homemade light control system that operated at 315Mhz, and caused interference with many other devices.
>> Servers cost money to run and content is usually not free to create.

Yes- and you know who makes a lot of money out of servers and content? ISPs. If they want to keep making that money, perhaps they can fork out some of it to cover the costs of running the infrastructure and the content that keeps them in the money.